Tag: MAP-21

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Infrastructure update: New reports detail funding mess; toll road manager goes bust
Congress is away through the November elections, and MAP-21 has been extended through next May, but plenty of groups with interests in transportation, the economy and good government continue to weigh in with ideas for a new highway bill.
October 1, 2014
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Highway users, road builders oppose bill to surrender federal highway authority
Transportation interests, including American Trucking Associations, have written Congress to express opposition to the so-called “devolution” of the federal highway program and the proposed Transportation Empowerment Act.
September 17, 2014
Click to enlarge. (See related post below for a link to slides detailing state and federal transportation spending.)
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Dear Congress: ‘This is no way to run a railroad,’ a dozen USDOT secs say
Current Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and 11 former DOT chiefs on Monday sent a letter to Congress saying the lawmakers’ work doesn’t end with the patch to the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund that is currently under consideration.
July 22, 2014
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Senate EPW takes ‘first bite’ of the elephant: MAP-21 reauthorization passes unanimously
The Environment and Public Works committee on Thursday sent its federal transportation package to the full Senate, putting a bipartisan stamp on the six-year plan with a unanimous vote.
May 16, 2014
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DOT chief outlines plan to tackle ‘infrastructure deficit’
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx preached to the choir Wednesday, telling a gathering of transportation policy experts that the U.S. is falling behind in infrastructure investment and that the solution is to spend more, and spend wisely, on the nation’s roads and bridges.
January 16, 2014
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Governors, mayors, industry push for long-term transport plan
American jobs, the economy, and global competitiveness are at stake without a modern transportation network, a panel representing U.S. governors, mayors and manufacturers told Congress Tuesday, testifying in the year’s first hearing on a new highway bill.
January 15, 2014
“If you have a world-class port and the highway infrastructure surrounding it isn’t up to standard, you haven’t gained anything,” Caterpillar Inc. Group President Stuart Levenick tells Congress.
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Freight panel ‘kicks the can’ on funding decisions
A House panel that spent six months assessing the nation’s freight transportation needs has unanimously decided the U.S. should spend more, but made no specific recommendations as to where any funding increase should come from.
October 30, 2013
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Truck weight limits debated as Congress develops freight plan
Higher truck weight limits emerged as a featured topic during a congressional hearing Tuesday, Oct. 1.
October 2, 2013
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