Final CAFE standards mean $65+ billion loss for highway, transit improvements

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Jul 29, 2011

A July 29 Obama Administration proposal to increase fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks to an average 54.5 miles per gallon (mpg) between 2017 and 2025 would result in the loss of more than $65 billion in federal ...

American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) TransOvation Workshop & Exhibition

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Jun 08, 2011

The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) is bringing together some of the brightest minds in transportation development and business for a first-of-its-kind interactive learning event that will help transportation design and construction professionals increase ...

ARTBA sets lineup for TransOvation Workshop for young execs

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Jun 08, 2011

The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) is bringing together some of the brightest minds in transportation development and business for a first-of-its-kind interactive learning event that will help transportation design and construction professionals increase productivity and profit for ...

ARTBA names Peter Embrey director of sales

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Jun 02, 2011

The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) has named Peter S. Embrey its new director of sales. Embrey has more than 20 years of experience in sales and association management. He is responsible for boosting advertising in ARTBA publications, sponsorships ...

ARTBA names new public affairs director

Tina Grady Barbaccia - May 19, 2011

Beth McGinn, a political communications veteran of Capitol Hill and several congressional campaigns, has been named director of public affairs at the Washington, D.C.-based American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). She replaces Jeff Solsby who left to join the staff ...

ARTBA rolls out interactive Website on job creation impacts of highway investment

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Apr 07, 2011

The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) has rolled out a new interactive Website with extensive information about the job creation impacts of federal transportation investment on the national and state economies. The data, found at www.transportationcreatesjobs.org, show the number ...

TTI center director honored with ARTBA award

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Feb 28, 2011

“Some people ask what happened, some people watch what happens, and some people make things happen. Melissa Tooley makes things happen.” Those were the words of an industry peer describing Melissa S. Tooley, the recipient of the 2010 S.S. Steinberg ...

Transportation leaders laud 15-cent gas hike proposal

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Nov 11, 2010

Leaders from a coalition of transportation interests are lauding a draft proposal released by the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. “We applaud the draft proposal released today by the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform co-chairs to ...

Hey Congress, ‘We’re sick of aging roads’

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Sep 02, 2010

The Transportation Construction Coalition (TCC) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce-led Americans for Transportation Mobility (ATM), two national groups advocating for significant new investments in transportation improvements, are working together to elevate infrastructure issues on the congressional legislative calendar this ...

ARTBA’s Ruane on Caltrans decision: Political inertia playing havoc with nation’s transportation program

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Aug 13, 2010

American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) President & CEO Pete Ruane has made an official statement regarding the Caltrans announcement stopping new transportation improvement projects. Ruane's statement follows: “Political inertia from Sacramento, California, to Washington, D.C., is playing havoc with the ...

ARTBA to Obama: Despite stimulus, 13 states cut investment

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Jul 30, 2010

American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) President & CEO Pete Ruane last night sent a letter to President Obama. ARTBA says that the letter outlines the serious challenges facing the transportation design and construction sector and urges action ...

Stimulus a ‘bright spot’ but recovery hinges on highway bill, contractor tells Congress

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Jul 28, 2010

The highway investments in the stimulus law have been a bright spot for the transportation construction industry that has been hit hard hit by recession-induced cutbacks in state programs and decline in private sector work, continued uncertainty about passage ...