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Kansas has spent $3 billion meant for roads on other things. Stopping will be hard

The Wichita Eagle » More than $3.3 billion of tax dollars meant for highways have been spent elsewhere over the past 20 years. In turn, the state is delaying nearly two dozen projects to repair or expand highways at the moment. Calls to stop using highway funding for other purposes are mounting, and now, Kansas’s new governor has joined in.

February 12, 2018|

Trump is announcing a huge $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan — here’s what’s in it

Business Insider » The White House on Monday unveiled President Donald Trump’s long-awaited infrastructure plan that aims to rehabilitate the nation’s roads, bridges, tunnels, and more. The funding proposal is a departure from typical spending on infrastructure, as the federal government usually covers a bulk of the cost. The Trump plan would see local governments taking on 80% or more of the funding burden.

February 12, 2018|

Oroville Crisis Drives Harder Look at Aging US Dams

U.S. News » The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is telling owners of the 1,700 other hydroelectric dams it regulates nationally that it expects them to look equally hard at their own organizations and aging dams, in the wake of the sudden collapse of much of first one, then both spillways last February at the 770-foot-tall (235-meter-tall) Oroville Dam, the nation’s tallest.

February 11, 2018|

$8B freeway being planned for L.A. County

Los Angeles Times » The California Department of Transportation in June begin buying land to build a 63-mile high desert freeway connecting the Los Angeles County communities of Palmdale and Lancaster with the San Bernardino County communities of Victorville, Apple Valley and Adelanto. Officials say the $8-billion project would relieve anticipated traffic congestion in the fast-growing region.

February 10, 2018|
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