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Burnside Bridge reopens in Ore. after two years of repairs and upgrades
After more than two years of repairs and upgrades, the Burnside Bridge in Multnomah County, Ore., completely reopened to traffic on earlier this month, KATU reports. The bridge now has two lanes in each direction, as well as bikes lanes and a bus-only lane in the eastbound direction. The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) has […]
November 26, 2019
Roadbuilding
Illinois Tollway awards $3.8 million in construction contracts in April
The Illinois Tollway Board of Directors approved construction contracts valued at $3.8 million at its April meeting, bringing the yearly total for construction and engineering contracts to $132.9 million. Total construction and engineering projects approved by the Illinois Tollway for the Move Illinois program has reached closed to $4.3 billion since the program began in […]
May 3, 2016
Roadbuilding
Pennsylvania DOT accepting unsolicited proposals for P3 transportation projects
Contractors have until April 30 to submit unsolicited proposals for transportation projects to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) Office of Public-Private Partnerships (P3) (www.P3forPA.com). This is the first of two unsolicited proposal periods for 2015. Infrastructure and PennDOT-owned projects are the primary focus for this open period, but proposals for “non-PennDOT-owned assets” also can […]
April 10, 2015
Roadbuilding
Multiple states delaying or canceling transportation projects over highway funding uncertainty
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association reports that four states have canceled or delayed transportation improvement projects due to inaction by Congress in providing for the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) beyond the current May 31 funding deadline. Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, and Wyoming have canceled or delayed roughly $780 million in projects. In addition to […]
March 26, 2015
Business
Los Angeles at a tipping point: get serious about public transportation or sink into Third World status
Last week I got the opportunity to visit Southern California and see how the country’s most famous freeways were holding up. I pulled out of LAX in my rental car just after lunch, gunned it onto the 405 and then west on 101 and barely had to tap the brakes during four hours of high-speed […]
January 23, 2015
Business
Obama urges Congress to focus on improving infrastructure rather than Keystone XL in State of the Union
President Barack Obama in his sixth State of the Union address made little mention of issues related directly to construction and transportation, which has in years past come in the form of the president pushing Congress to do more to fund highways and other transportation infrastructure. Unlike recent years, however, the president only briefly addressed transportation infrastructure […]
January 21, 2015
Business
More reasons not to build toll roads
As a follow up to my earlier post on the Texas SH 130 toll road, I wanted to elaborate on another reason why I think toll roads are a bad idea: elitism. Tolls for me, free for thee Most of the sophisticated toll systems today photograph your license plate or read an RFID transponder in […]
January 19, 2015
Roadbuilding
Do as I say, not as I do
I recently went on a short trip to New York City with one of my closest friends. It was just an in-and-out weekend to spend a few days together catching up away from our busy lives of work, family and all the other activities/groups, etc., in which we are involved. During our little getaway, we […]
November 12, 2014
Business
Recent toll road poll proves nothing; private financing of public roads is still a bad idea
The Reason Foundation and the Alliance for Toll-Free Interstates recently traded jabs over a poll that purports to show Americans prefer toll roads as a solution to our declining transportation infrastructure. Not unexpectedly, the Reason-Rupe Poll  found favor with Reason’s longstanding position advocating toll roads. The Alliance shot back with a press release citing a […]
August 22, 2014
Business
House passes $10.8 billion quick fix as highway construction funding nears insolvency
The House on Tuesday passed a nearly $11 billion quick fix that would stave off the looming insolvency of the Highway Trust Fund (HTF), the primary source of federal funding for road construction and repairs. The bill passed a week after the White House and transportation officials urged lawmakers to try and find a long-term […]
July 16, 2014
Business
Senate committee approves 6-year highway bill but funding questions remain
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee unanimously approved a six-year surface transportation reauthorization bill Thursday morning. Top committee members Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), committee chairman; David Vitter (R-La.), committee ranking member; Tom Carper (D-Del.), chairman of the Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure; and John Barrasso (R-Wy.), subcommittee ranking member unveiled the bill, known as the MAP-21 Reauthorization […]
May 19, 2014
Business
DOT now predicts Highway Trust Fund will run out of money by end of August
In its latest update of the Highway Trust Fund Ticker, the U.S. Department of Transportation predicts the HTF to run out of money by the end of August. In the ticker update, the DOT notes that the Highway Account started fiscal year 2014 with about $1.6 billion, and $9.7 billion was transferred from the General Fund. […]
April 16, 2014
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