We don’t have a problem designing and building long-life roads and bridges in America; we have a problem with weak-kneed elected officials who don’t want to pay for long life ...

We the people — and the people we elect to office — equate roads with costs, but not with opportunity.

Write this down and put it somewhere prominent: The Great Recession will end.

The Republican caucus unilaterally rescinded budgetary guarantees that user fees collected for the Highway Trust Fund would be invested in a timely manner and only for transportation improvements.

We rail when the roads are bad; when they’re good, we complain about how much it cost.

What little hope there is for the American transportation system rests with new House speaker John Boehner .

We citizens need a better model for our government than corporate America. Government isn’t a business.

Be glad driving is safer in America, make it a point to respond to people advocating a downsized highway program, and get the AASHTO report on rural needs to as ...

In the end, public coffers will get some revenue from robot cops, but I fear it will come at a terrible price because these systems will add still more citizens ...

These are the best examples I know of true grit. Vietnam era soldiers and road professionals. I don’t have a higher compliment to pay you, so I’ll just end by ...

I still think the communications side of FHWA needs a robust audit to see if it is performing any useful function to the country or the road industry.

Ironically, the things that might make a substantial impact in the safety statistics are things that cost more money – better signage, wider lanes, broader shoulders, better road surfaces, less ...