Highway Transportation Infrastructure News, Information
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Latest Transportation Infrastructure News
Pave now or pave later
As the U.S. inches closer to the end of the current highway bill, debate is beginning to heat up as to whether Congress should deal with the massive...
Better late than never: Transportation infrastructure
Everyone agrees that this country's transportation infrastructure needs help. Our highway system in particular has been overused, underfunded and ignored...
ATA lobbying for increased fuel taxes
The American Trucking Assns. (ATA), is strongly endorsing an increase in fuel taxes as it holds such taxes offer the most efficient and cost-effective way to fund highway infrastructure needs, for both the average motorist and freight haulers alike...
Battling over highway bill delay
Opposition remains strong in many corners to a White House-directed effort to put off a vote on the Surface Transportation Authorization Act of 2009, commonly referred to as the “highway bill,” for nearly two years...
Bipartisan group backs highway bill
The Bipartisan Policy Center's (BPC) National Transportation Policy Project (NTPP) has issued a statement of support for the actions of Chairman James Oberstar (D- MN) and Members of the U.S. House of Representative's Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee for recognizing that the nation's transportation policies and programs are in need of reform...
Transportation reform blueprint released
WASHINGTON D.C. Painting U.S. surface transportation networks as broken and failing, riddled with inefficient funding mechanisms and "perverse incentives," a bipartisan think tank is urging a total overhaul of U.S. transportation policy...
DOT: Highway safety to remain top priority
WASHINGTON. Despite the ongoing and overwhelming effort to distribute billions in transportation infrastructure from President Obama's economic stimulus package, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood stated here yesterday that that effort won't distract his agency from its "number one priority" going forward-- improving highway safety...
Facing down supply-chain threats
A series of ongoing and increasingly more volatile threats across many fronts will face global supply chains and the trucking networks that support them in the years ahead-- ranging from high fuel prices and a capacity shortage to cargo theft, terrorism, and the impact freight transportation has on the environment...
AASHTO builds infrastructure update site
To provide an ongoing update about efforts to improve U.S. transportation infrastructure, the American Assn. of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) is launching a new website appropriately titled "Are We There Yet?"...
Study rips flaws in PA Turnpike deal
A new report picks apart the unsuccessful effort last year to lease the Pennsylvania Turnpike to private investors -- illustrating the good and not-so-good elements of using large scale public-private partnerships to fund roadway infrastructure...
Obama releases $26.6 billion for infrastructure projects
President Barack Obama has announced the release of $26.6 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)...
Transportation committee calls for vehicle miles traveled tax
The U.S. should change its infrastructure funding structure from indirect motor fuel taxes to direct mileage-based fees, and increase the federal gasoline tax and the federal diesel tax to aid the transportation system in the short-term, the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission said...
Solving U.S. infrastructure woes
The U.S. infrastructure system needs an infusion of $2.2 trillion over the next five years, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) said in its 2009 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure...
CTA applauds Canada stimulus plan
Canada’s minority Conservative government’s action plan for stimulating the economy was met with approval by the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA)...
CTA pushes Canada to fund infrastructure
The Canadian government should make strategic investments in key highway and border crossing infrastructure to kick-start its economy, said David Bradley, CEO of the Canadian Trucking Alliance...
