What? Another extension? Really?

John Latta - Aug 19, 2011

This will surprise no one. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Ca), chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee and therefore the key senator in any reauthorization legislation process, is setting up another extension for dear old SAFETEA-LU. Boxer said she will schedule ...

Wanna hear something scary?

John Latta - Aug 17, 2011

According to Politico's Ben Smith there is a little known upcoming event that is probably nothing to worry about. Most of the gas tax is set to expire on September 30. Actually all but 4.3 cents of the 18.4 cents is on ...

More Here = Less There

John Latta - Aug 05, 2011

This calculation is so simple that even I, who is severely math-challenged, can do it. If the fuel tax remains the same but the amount of fuel used goes down, less money is generated. The White House says: On Tuesday, August 9, ...

Dueling Proposals

John Latta - Jul 11, 2011

Okay folks if you look out the left side of the aircraft you can see crumbling infrastructure and if you look out the right side you can see a crumbling economy. Now let’s try and land this thing. House Republicans are ...

Job Loses (count ‘em) Under Mica Bill — Dems

John Latta - Jul 08, 2011

Democrats say the Mica surface transportation proposal would cost every states jobs over it's six year span. The total: 490,627 jobs. Here's their state by state count: Check out the table that outlines each state's job loss according to the Democrats.

Reauthorization Proposal Overview

John Latta - Jul 07, 2011

Here's a summary of the reauthorization proposal from the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee as it affects road and bridge industries. *Funding: Provides $230 billion over six years from the Highway Trust Fund – consistent with the amount of revenue deposited ...

A Small Bill

John Latta - Jul 06, 2011

It's the sort of story you don't want to read because it will confirm the bad news you feared. Yet here it is in the Washington Post. Soon, maybe tomorrow, a bill to replace SAFETEA-LU will emerge from the House Transportation ...

They cost how much! Are they worth it?

John Latta - Jun 27, 2011

Checking out some British road building news and came across an interesting commentary by the architecture correspondent of The Guardian newspaper. It came packaged with an online story about two new, short, roads in Britain. The first in Scotland cost ...

We’re Marching on Congress, May 25

John Latta - May 13, 2011

May 25 is the day, 11 a.m. is the time. Don’t bring pitchforks and torches, just your conviction that we need to do something more than we have been doing to get Congress off their assumptions and do the right ...

Reauthorization and 85-yard field goals

John Latta - Apr 05, 2011

It's like everyone in Washington involved in trying to put a viable new surface transportation bill into action are playing the same silly game. Everyone knows its silly, but they keep on playing. Here's an example from last week: A House ...

Reading CONEXPO’s Upbeat Signs

John Latta - Mar 25, 2011

The "official" stamp of success will come later when all the numbers are run, but CONEXPO certainly feels like we have reached the end of the beginning of the turnaround.I'm enjoying the upbeat feeling here. OEMs have presented numbers that are ...

Climate-controlled street and traffic lights

John Latta - Mar 09, 2011

It's Cornhusker common-sense. Nature is being called on to provide light at night for people using roads in Lincoln, Neb. The city is testing wind and solar power as a source of energy to power street and traffic lights. It's a ...

« Newer Articles

Older Articles »