Thu December 03, 2015
Qatar Bans Contractors Leaving Country
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Qatar has banned contractors from leaving the small, oil-rich country as it carries out a probe into how heavy rains damaged buildings and roadways. An article late Friday on the state-run Qatar News Agency announced the travel ban....
Tue December 01, 2015
FAST Act Heads to Congress
The House and Senate conference committee on surface transportation reauthorization recently released its final report. The revised H.R. 22, the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, now heads to the House and Senate for final approval....
MICHAEL BALSAMO and FRANK ELTMAN - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wed December 02, 2015
Navy Vet Sues Town Over Demolished Home
WEST HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) - When a U.S. Navy veteran traveled from Long Island to Florida for a knee replacement, his house was the last thing on his mind. But now his memory of it is all he can think about....
Mon November 30, 2015
Tribes File Suit Over Northern California Highway Project
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) State transportation officials have destroyed Native American cultural sites during construction of a Highway 101 bypass in Northern California and failed to develop a plan to protect additional sites as the project moves forward, according to a lawsuit filed Oct....
Wed November 25, 2015
Environmental Groups Protest Utah Loan to Coal Terminal
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Several Utah environmental groups are asking the state’s attorney general to invalidate a pending loan that would give mineral lease money to a California coal shipping port. The $53 million investment in an Oakland, Calif., export terminal was authorized by the Utah permanent Community Impact Board in April....
Lori Tobias - Wed November 25, 2015
Voters in 10 Utah Counties Elect to Pass Proposition 1
Ten counties in Utah passed a measure on Election Day raising sales taxes by a quarter of a percent to pay for road projects. But the state’s two most populous counties, Salt Lake and Utah, defeated the rate hike....
David Porter - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Fri November 27, 2015
Hudson Tunnel: Is Oft-Maligned Agency Up to the Challenge?
NEW YORK (AP) - There’s no question the agency that operates much of the infrastructure around the nation’s largest city has lost esteem in recent years because of flubs including a scandal that reached into the New Jersey governor’s office, billions of dollars in overruns on projects including the new World Trade Center, and an audit calling it ”challenged and dysfunctional.’So why should the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey be trusted to oversee the $20 billion construction of a new Hudson River rail tunnel, one of the largest infrastructure projects the region has ever seen?Simply put, no one else is as qualified....
Tue November 24, 2015
D-Mar General Expects Rise in Projects, Positions
Survey findings released by The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) in October illustrated the severity of the construction industry’s workforce shortage, with 86 percent of all firms reporting trouble filling hourly and/or salaried positions....
Erik Schelzig - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tue November 24, 2015
Haslam: Decide Road Priorities
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Republican Gov. Bill Haslam is calling on state lawmakers to decide on Tennessee’s priorities on future road projects before resolving the politically tricky issue of finding a way to pay for them....
Seanna Adcox - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Mon November 23, 2015
Aid for Roads Won’t Improve Highway System
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) An influx of federal money to repair hundreds of roads and bridges damaged by last month’s historic flooding will do little to improve South Carolina’s dilapidated highway system....
