Lattatudes

Better Roads Staff - Dec 01, 2012

Get 'em Dirty By John Latta From the days when SAFETEA-LU’s expiration was way in the future, until today, I’ve followed Washington’s every move on reauthorization and visited the capital regularly to talk to people that mattered, officially or unofficially, in the ...

Lattatudes

Better Roads Staff - Nov 13, 2012

Plays Well With Others By John Latta This is a little bit of a tightrope act. jlatta@randallreilly.com I am writing this before the election. Why? So that I don’t let election results skew or tilt what I write just a tiny bit to ...

RoadWorks

Better Roads Staff - Sep 06, 2012

Mapping MAP-21’s Reforms By John Latta MAP-21, our brand-new surface transportation legislation, includes several significant changes to the review and approval process for transportation projects, all of which have the potential to change, and hopefully benefit the way agencies and contractors work. ...

We get to it when we get to it

John Latta - Jan 18, 2012

I think maybe Congress is using one of Salvador Dali's clocks to figure out when we might be a reauthorization bill. Then again, I suppose progress wasn't supposed to be predictably smooth. Take progress on a new surface transportation bill. Congress ...

Sens. Boxer and Inhofe release outline for bipartisan transportation reauthorization bill

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Jul 21, 2011

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), and Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member, on July 19 released an outline for Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21), a bipartisan ...

Obama signs defense bill which extends highway spending through February

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Dec 21, 2009

Pres. Barack Obama signed the U.S. Department of Defense appropriations bill, which includes an extension of current surface transportation law (SAFETEA-LU) through February 28, 2010, according to a report from the American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA). The U.S. Senate approved the House-passed ...

RoadWorks: What to Research Next Year

Brooke Wisdom - Oct 01, 2009

Assuming that new surface transportation legislation will eventually arrive, the Federal Highway Administration has moved to develop a planning and environment research program for FY 2010. You now have the chance to deliver your input to FHWA before the program ...