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ARTBA analysis shows boost in state transportation funding legislation

Roads & Bridges » Legislators in 37 states have introduced 185 bills aimed at boosting transportation investment in the first two months of 2019, a new analysis from the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s Transportation Investment Advocacy Center (ARTBA-TIAC) finds.

March 8, 2019|

Infrastructure bill seen difficult to pass amid funding disputes

Crain’s Cleveland Business / Bloomberg » House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said passage of legislation to improve U.S. infrastructure isn’t likely this year without a consensus that includes President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans over how to pay for it.

March 7, 2019|

Long-term road funds idea picks up support

Arkansas Democrat Gazette » In Little Rock, a legislative committee Wednesday recommended Senate approval of a proposal to refer to voters in 2020 a proposed constitutional amendment that would make permanent a half-percent sales tax that benefits highways but was intended to expire in four years.

March 7, 2019|

Carbon fee returns in Olympia as lawmakers consider $15 billion transportation package

The Seattle Times » A key state Senate committee gave early approval Wednesday to the state’s latest major transportation-spending package: a $15 billion plan to maintain and widen highways, fix culverts that impede fish passage, electrify ferries and partially fund a replacement of the Interstate 5 bridge between Vancouver and Portland.

March 6, 2019|

Genoa Bridge Collapse Throws Harsh Light on Benettons’ Highway Billions

The New York Times » Long before the Morandi Bridge collapsed in Genoa, Italy, last year, killing 43 people, an economics professor named Marco Ponti took aim at the private company that managed the structure, raising two fundamental concerns. One was money. Mr. Ponti argued that Autostrade per l’Italia, or Highways for Italy, which managed the bridge and more than half of Italy’s 4,000 miles of toll roads, made “abnormal” profits. The other was the lopsided power balance between Autostrade and the Italian government. Mr. Ponti, who served on an expert panel advising the government, said ministries did too little to regulate the company. Taxpayers were being shorn “like flocks of sheep,” Mr. Ponti said in a newspaper interview in 2003.

March 5, 2019|

Governors bullish on infrastructure after Trump talks

The Hill » The nation’s governors are increasingly hopeful that a sweeping infrastructure package is possible this year after White House talks that even some of President Trump’s harshest critics called surprisingly productive. Governors who met this weekend in Washington almost universally said they were disappointed in the lack of action by a divided Congress. But they are optimistic that Congress will act to send them billions of dollars to repair roads and bridges in a matter of months.

February 25, 2019|
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