Fri June 19, 2015
Former Governor Blasts ’Irrational’ Congress on Highway Bill
Roy Romer, a former three-term Colorado governor and owner of construction and farm equipment dealerships in Colorado and Virginia urged congressional leaders to lay out a clear timetable for reauthorizing the federal highway program....
Tue June 16, 2015
Gas Tax Study Reveals Surprising Result
Increasing the gas tax does not result in a commensurate penny-to-penny increase in the retail price motorists pay at the pump, a study of the market impacts of five state gas tax increases enacted in 2013 found....
Melinda Deslatte - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Mon June 08, 2015
Lawmakers Submit Overloaded La. Construction Budget
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Louisiana’s lawmakers have started advancing a state construction budget for next year that is so overstuffed with projects it would give Gov. Bobby Jindal decision-making authority over which ones actually receive money....
Alan Suderman - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tue June 02, 2015
Dominion Names Alternate Routes for Proposed Pipeline
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Dominion Resources Inc. said it has come up with alternative segments for portions of a 550-mi. proposed natural gas pipeline in two Virginia counties where many local landowners have been fighting the project....
Fri May 29, 2015
Industry Eyes Strategies to Undo New EPA Rule
A major regulatory proposal announced just recently by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) relating to the Clean Water Act (CWA) will require additional burdensome permitting requirements and could be used as a litigation tool by project opponents, both of which will result in delays to key transportation improvements, the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) says....
Joan Lowy - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tue May 26, 2015
Another Highway Funding Patch Put in Place
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress has sent President Barack Obama a bill to keep highway and transit aid flowing to states for another two months and prevent shutdown of summer construction projects. The Senate approved the bill by voice vote early Saturday; the measure passed the House earlier in the week....
Wed May 20, 2015
Are Rural Roads Being Neglected?
The National Transportation Research Group TRIP has released a new report focusing on the special challenges that rural roads face in the current aging infrastructure crisis. Among the findings of the report:- Rural residents tend to be more heavily reliant on their limited transportation network – primarily rural roads and highways- than their counterparts in more urban areas....
Alan Fram - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Mon May 18, 2015
House GOP Plans 2-Month Extension of Highway Funds
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans introduced a two-month extension of the federal highway and mass transit program Friday, barely two weeks before the government’s authority to help finance projects around the country expires....
Mon May 18, 2015
Senator Proposes National Infrastructure Bank
Reuters is reporting that a Republican senator last week proposed that Congress create a new bank to overcome a drought in federal infrastructure funds partly by using voluntarily repatriated corporate dollars to help states finance road and bridge projects....
Thu May 14, 2015
Foxx Exhorts Congress to Spend Big on Roads, Bridges
The Hill is reporting that Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx last week said, “we ought to be embarrassed as a country” about the state of the nation’s infrastructure, as lawmakers scramble to beat a May 31 deadline for extending federal transportation funds....
