Impact Recovery Systems celebrates 20th anniversary

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Jun 08, 2011

Traffic safety product manufacturer Impact Recovery Systems (IRS) is celebrating its 20th year in business. On May 29, the company marked its official 20-year anniversary. Although IRS has been in business since 1991, its origin dates back much further. In 1956, Frank ...

Financial District

John Latta - Jun 04, 2011

Same Tunnel. Same Weak Light. Recent survey suggests ‘hunkering down’ may be the best planning strategy for a while By John Latta Knowing exactly where you are is the key to getting to where you want to be. And a new survey of ...

Financial District

Brooke Wisdom - Dec 01, 2010

A Bipartisan Bluprint? A Virginia think tank report may shape our next SAFETEA-LU. By John Latta I f there is to be a new surface transportation bill sometime in 2011, or even if it comes months, or years, later, it is probable that ...

Financial District

Brooke Wisdom - Nov 01, 2010

No more money New report says public in no mood to increase transportation funding (in fact they’d be happy to see cuts) By John Latta A new report has put into even higher relief the central problem behind the stall in reauthorization and ...

RoadWorks

Brooke Wisdom - Nov 01, 2010

Changes Coming Thick and Fast from “Activist” EPA Is the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) close to creating, by coincidence, a perfect regulatory storm that could affect highway and bridge work across the country? The agency is working on new standards and ...

ARTBA elects 2010-2011 officers

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Oct 08, 2010

The American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) elected its 2010-2011 officers at the association’s national convention, held October 3-6, in New York, City. The new officers are the following: •Chairman: Bill Cox, president, Corman Construction, Annapolis Junction, Md. •Senior Vice Chairman: Paul ...

RoadWorks

Brooke Wisdom - Oct 01, 2010

Rural America’s Vital Road Needs “Overlooked” By John Latta, Tina Grady Barbaccia and Mike Anderson Politicians and planners involved in “policy discussions” about future transportation funding and development are overlooking the people of rural America. So says John Horsley, executive director of ...

Obama says no new gas tax, use tolls

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Jul 26, 2010

Instead of raising the gas tax, which has not been raised in at least a decade, President Barack Obama says highway funding needs to come from tolls. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said a combination of current-level gas tax receipts, road and ...

ARTBA: Mobilize to make highway, transit bill a ‘priority’

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Jun 24, 2010

Dr. Pete Ruane, president and CEO of the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA), called the transportation industry to action today in a grassroots speech delivered via video on the association's Website. In the address, he urged transportation design and construction professioanls to take advantage ...

2010 ARTBA P3 in Transportation Conference announces full program

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Jun 09, 2010

For 21 years, the American Road and Transportation Builders Association has held the premier conference on P3s. This year’s conference (full program below) will feature two educational tracks over two days that will explore the role that P3s play in ...

ARTBA tells EPA not to give California waiver on off-road diesel retrofitting proposal

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Apr 15, 2010

The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) told the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in April 14 testimony that it should not give the state of California a federal waiver that would allow a proposal to require the mandatory retrofitting of ...

Is the Senate’s approval of a highway bill extension a step in the right direction or two steps back?

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Feb 26, 2010

The Senate passed an extension of the highway bill through the end of December, which seems like it would be a move in the right direction. But that one advancement forward may very well be one move in the right direction ...

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