Tags: infrastructure

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 ...

Transportation bipartisanship goes rank and file

December 08, 2011

It might just stick. Bipartisanship in the quest for a new surface transportation bill arose from the depths of the summer of our discontent with SAFETEA-LU's sucessor; and it seems to ...

Is this it? Or something like it?

December 05, 2011

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has released the full text of its surface transportation reauthorization bill. It's called MAP-21 (SAFETEA-LU it isn't), and of course, it's an acronym ...

Lattatudes

November 12, 2011

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The ultimate cost of a continued delay will almost certainly far outstrip the cost of finding adequate funding.

Is this it? Or something like it?

November 07, 2011

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has released the full text of its surface transportation reauthorization bill. It's called MAP-21 ( SAFETEA-LU it isn't) and of course its an ...

‘I Make America’ campaign turns 1; celebrates with virtual march on D.C. for infrastructure investment

October 06, 2011

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) and the I Make America campaign celebrated the campaign’s first anniversary, and to mark the occasion, industry supporters held a virtual march on Washington, ...

Hundreds converge in O.C. to help get Americans back to work

September 01, 2011

More than 250 people came together on Aug. 31 in a first-of-its kind summit to discuss factors that create jobs and offer solutions to expediting transportation projects for America’s future, ...

Congress, send me that bill!

August 12, 2011

I keep wondering if there is a tipping point for our transportation infrastructure, a point where the entire game changes. Somewhat in the way a breached levee in New Orleans ...
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