Tags: highways
Mica’s Move is Made: Now let’s keep moving
February 01, 2012
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica and Members of the committee unveiled the American Energy an Infrastructure Jobs Act yesterday.
I would like to think contractors, subs, agencies,equipment dealerships ...
Think Locally, Act Nationally – Carnegie Report
January 09, 2012
The best thinkers -- and doers -- in transportation infrastructure might just be found far far from our nation's capital.
When it comes to giving America the best transportation infrastructure it ...
I’d borrow for infrastructure says leading GOP candidate
December 19, 2011
Guess who said this?
"You have to prioritize those things which are most important to you and infrastructure and having good roads and bridges and rail lines and air ...
Reading CONEXPO’s Upbeat Signs
March 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 ...
Texas’ transportation funding nightmare
March 10, 2011
Here is a very scary prediction:
"By 2025, only 21 percent of Texas' roads will be in good or better condition."
It's not my prediction, it comes from the Center for Transportation ...
Climate-controlled street and traffic lights
March 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 ...
Build now, pay later
January 24, 2011
A $1.8 billion road project in Florida is being done for the state without the state itself paying a penny for it. Yet.
The repair and widening of I-595 will be ...
Road funds low? Use Canadian money
January 24, 2011
Slowly, but inevitably, there are stories surfacing that show just how much our roads need work and just how badly underfunded are the agencies that would do that work.
In Michigan, ...
Zen and the Art of Parachute Jumping
January 06, 2011
I wonder.
If politicians, wearing government-issue parachutes, jumped out of airplanes (or were pushed, remember they're politicians) and decided not to deploy the chute to show their voting constituents how reluctant ...
Mike Anderson’s American Iron
December 01, 2010







