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National Transportation Week should positively boost global competitiveness, NSSGA says
This year’s National Transportation Week (NTW), which runs from May 14 until May 18, focuses on transportation’s effects on globalization, according to our sister site, Better Roads.
The 2013 NTW theme is “Transportation - The World is Right Next Door.”
The National ... Read More...
Shuster ‘encouraged’ by infrastructure plan, but ‘long-term plan’ needed
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) released a statement on Wednesday following the release of additional details on President Obama’s infrastructure plan.
In his statement, Shuster pointed out that he is “encouraged” by the need to reduce “red ... Read More...
Steady, but modest, growth is the trend
By George H. Reddin
Slow progress in the return of the residential market, modest enthusiasm for the passage of MAP-21, and the continued steady, albeit modest, pace of acquisitions are starting to give some optimism that the worst is behind us ... Read More...
Elections and a ‘fiscal cliff’ loom ahead, but residential recovery continues
By George H. Reddin
Uncertainty continues to characterize the near-term economic outlook and inhibit stronger growth and job creation. This has been a common theme for this article during the last few years and has been a major reason for the ... Read More...
‘Map’ing out the future of highway funding
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A new transportation bill is being referred to as ‘devolution lite.’ Two years of funding provides a reprieve, but a lack of federal ... Read More...
It’s time to learn from your mistakes, Congress
Learn From Your Mistakes
The House passed a six-month continuing resolution, H.J.Res. 117, to fund the government until early 2013, according to a Sept. 14 report in the Association of American Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Journal.
However, this comes without incorporating ... Read More...
The Road Connection hits Sturgis, and my ramblings about MAP-21
The Road Connection crew went to the famous motorcycle destination, Sturgis, S.D., for the 72nd Annual Black Hills Motorcycle Rally and is now headed for Eugene, Ore., where the crew will be participating in an event to thank Johnson Crushers ... Read More...
Making Transportation Progress in the 21st Century
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After three years and nine extensions, the House and Senate both pass a 27-month, $105 billion surface transportation bill. Now the clock is ... Read More...
Thank you sir, may I have another?
On June 29 — just before the ninth SAFETEA-LU extension expired — Congress passed Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21). Within hours of House and Senate votes, construction industry spokesmen praised Congressional leaders for creating stability in ... Read More...
The Hill: Obama to sign highway bill Friday
President Obama on Friday will sign the combined transportation, student loan and flood insurance bill at a White House event, according to a July 3 report by Keith Laing in The Hill.
The House and Senate on June 29 passed a new ... Read More...
House, Senate pass $105 billion, two-year transportation bill
The House and Senate on June 29 passed a new two-year $105 billion surface transportation reauthorization bill, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21), the AASHTO Journal reports. The measure, H.R. 4348, passed the House 373-52, just before ... Read More...
Counting on a Conference Committee
As this issue of Aggregates Manager was going to press, everyone inside the Beltway was talking about the need for transportation reauthorization. The question is whether talk will lead to action. Even Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is in the dark ... Read More...
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