Wed January 25, 2017
$1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Proposed
Senate Democrats on Tuesday offered a plan to spend $1 trillion on transportation and other infrastructure projects over 10 years, challenging President Donald Trump to join them on an issue where they hope to find common ground....
Dave Mosher - Wed January 25, 2017
Giant Machines Play 'Key' Role in Keystone Pipeline in Alberta, Canada
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to revive and expedite two multi-billion-dollar underground pipelines that would snake oil through US states to centers of the petroleum industry....
Tue January 24, 2017
ARTBA President & CEO Pete Ruane Statement on Senate Democrats Infrastructure Proposal
American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) President & CEO Pete Ruane issued the following statement:“It's encouraging Senate Democrats and the President appear to have a similar legislative appetite for investing in transportation infrastructure to help grow the economy....
Tue January 24, 2017
Philadelphia Port Will Receive $300M Face-Lift From State Bond
A commitment of $300 million to the Port of Philadelphia during the next four years could make it a bigger player among East Coast ports at a crucial time. Gov. Tom Wolf visited the port to follow up on his November announcement that he will use borrowing authority granted by the Legislature to improve the port's infrastructure, warehousing, and equipment....
NOAM SCHEIBER - Tue January 24, 2017
Union Leaders Meet With Trump, Construction on Their Minds
At a meeting with the leaders of several construction and building trade unions, President Trump reiterated on Monday his interest in directing hundreds of billions of dollars to infrastructure investments, some of it from the federal government, union officials said....
Gene Johnson - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Mon January 23, 2017
State Denies Sublease for Millennium Coal Export Terminal
Washington's outgoing public lands commissioner said he is refusing to allow the state's aquatic lands to be used for a major coal-export terminal along the Columbia River. But the company behind the proposal insisted the decision would have no effect on its plans....
Mon January 23, 2017
Sandoval Names Las Vegas Convention Center Upgrade Panel
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval has named a casino company design executive and the managing partner of the Thomas & Mack Corp. to head a Las Vegas Convention Center upgrade project oversight panel. Sandoval said that William Ham, of MGM Resorts International Design, will chair the commission, with Tom Thomas as vice chairman....
Matt Volz - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Mon January 23, 2017
Montana Re-Starts Delayed Projects
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock said that suspended road construction projects worth $144 million can go forward after the state received a $10 million Medicaid reimbursement from the federal government. The news came as a relief to contractors who had worried the delayed projects would lead to highway worker layoffs across the state....
Anthony Foxx (Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation) - Mon January 23, 2017
Feds Grant $1.6B for LA's Purple Line
When people think of Los Angeles, they often think of the glitz and glamor of Hollywood — but also of crippling traffic, delays and pollution in the nation's car capital. In recent years, LA's citizens and leaders have come together around a new vision....
James Anderson - Mon January 23, 2017
New Legislative Session Brings $500M Deficit, Uncertainty
With one eye on a $500 million state budget gap and the other on Washington, Gov. John Hickenlooper and a split Colorado Legislature enter the 2017 lawmaking session with little expectation of fiscal reform and plenty of uncertainty over transportation, the state's Medicaid bills, affordable housing and illegal pot sales....
