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Cat exec: Creating jobs top priority with new highway bill
Fostering long-term economic growth and creating American jobs should be the top priorities in the passage of a new, multi-year federal highway and transit investment bill, Caterpillar Inc., Worldwide Product Manager Larry Tate told attendees at a July 14 hearing ... Read More...
ARTBA promotes Allison Wenograd to VP of member services
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) has promoted Allison Wenograd to vice president of member services.
Wenograd is now responsible for coordinating all staff activities involved in the development and execution of programs, products and events that provide added-value ... Read More...
ARTBA to Obama: National rail plan needs dedicated funding, competitive bidding
A strategic rail plan being prepared by the U.S. Department of Transportation should propose dedicated financing mechanisms outside of the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) to support high speed passenger rail, encourage open competition for work on all types of rail ... Read More...
ARTBA chief blasts inaction on highway, transit bill
If Congress and the President do not act later this year or in early 2011 on passage of a new, multi-year highway and transit authorization bill, hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs could be lost and states could face at a ... Read More...
NAPA’s Mid-Year Meeting lineup: Reauthorization and climate change
The National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) announced that the lineup of sessions for its Midyear Meeting will include the latest information about Congress’s progress on the climate change and surface transportation reauthorization bills. The meeting is scheduled for July 26-28, ... Read More...
ARTBA: Senate climate bill ‘shorts’ transportation sector
A majority of the revenue generated from a new transportation user fee included in a climate bill proposed in the U.S. Senate would be diverted to non-transportation purposes —- a departure from 54 years of federal policy, according to the ... Read More...
Mary Peters, LaHood’s predecessor, confirmed for public-private partnership conference
Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters has just been confirmed as a general session speaker at the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA's) 22nd Annual Public-Private Partnerships in Transportation Conference, scheduled for July 22-23 in Washington, D.C.
Peters will ... Read More...
ARTBA hosting Traffic Management & Work Zone Safety Power Workshop at Intl. Bridge Conference
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) will be hosting a two-day “Traffic Management & Work Zone Safety Power Workshop” in conjunction with the International Bridge Conference in Pittsburgh June 8-9.
Industry experts will present on nighttime roadway construction work, ... Read More...
ARTBA urges clarity, flexibility in transportation planning process
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) told the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) in comments submitted April 9 that the “categorical Exclusion” (CE) process should be improved by focusing on methods to reduce highway project delay.
The ... Read More...
ARTBA’s Brad Sant elected chairman of Safety Equipment Institute
American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Vice President of Safety & Education Brad Sant has been elected chairman of the Virginia-based Safety Equipment Institute (SEI).
Established in 1981, SEI is a private, nonprofit organization that “administers a non-governmental, third-party certification ... Read More...
Regional surface transportation meetings planned for December: Nashville, Newark, Chicago, L.A.
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) will host four one-day regional meetings in December in Nashville, Newark, Chicago and Los Angeles.
The sessions will feature federal legislative and regulatory reports and discussions on key regional transportation projects.
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives ... Read More...
