Secretaries’ Day: A powerful meeting for transportation policy

John Latta - Apr 16, 2013

The University of Virginia's Miller Center (Photo: The University of Virginia Magazine) Conferences come and conferences go but as conferences go this one could be really good. Six former U.S. transportation secretaries, who served under every president from Ronald Reagan to ...

ARTBA President Pete Ruane 2012 Road Gang P.D. McLean Award recipient

Tina Grady Barbaccia - May 03, 2012

American Road & Transportation Builders Association President (ARTBA) & CEO Pete Ruane has been named the 2012 recipient of the Road Gang’s P.D. McLean Memorial Award. Established in 1962 in memory of one of the Road Gang’s founders and its ...

Financial District

Brooke Wisdom - Mar 01, 2011

Senators, Congressmen, Countrymen; Lend Me Your Earmarks A vast amount of transportation funding sitting around doing nothing may be put back into action if two U.S. senators can clear some very big hurdles. By John Latta Moves are being made in Washington to free ...

Mary Peters, LaHood’s predecessor, confirmed for public-private partnership conference

Tina Grady Barbaccia - May 12, 2010

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 ...

Kirk Landers: Freight gridlock

Brooke Wisdom - Oct 01, 2008

Freight gridlock By Kirk Landers In the circular world of America’s transportation debate, one incontrovertible truth seems to be that America needs to ship a lot more freight by train. There are mountains of data to support this contention — rail is ...

Kirk Landers: The Peters principles

Brooke Wisdom - Sep 01, 2008

The Peters principles By Kirk Landers Transportation Secretary Mary Peters’ reform proposal hit the streets in August and has been a major topic among road interests ever since. The Transportation Infrastructure Reform Act fleshes out the concepts Secretary Peters has been advocating ...