EDITORIAL: Changing gears on transportation (Detroit Free Press)
Nation needs smarter policies and funding system for the 21st Century
Nearly a decade into the 21st Century, the United States still lacks a comprehensive national plan to drive hundreds of billions of dollars of transportation investments that connect communities, fuel the economy, and shape patterns of growth […]
N.C. household income down, poverty up, census shows (WRAL.com)
Raleigh, N.C. — Newly released census figures show the median household income in North Carolina declined more than $3,500 over the past eight years and the percentage of households below the poverty line increased 2.3 percent.
The Office of Management and Budget defines the poverty threshold […]
Western North Carolina local governments see imbalance in road funding (Asheville Citizen Times)
Western North Carolina should be allowed to spend federal funds on an unfinished network of mountain highways without giving up other road money to the rest of the state, a growing number of local elected officials say.
Local boards are calling on the […]
Money top concern in road swap idea (New Orleans City Business)
Transportation official wants local governments to take over 5,000 miles of state highways
Louisiana’s 16,687 miles of state-owned roads are a “giant yoke hung around the neck of the state DOT that is weighing us down,” says Eric Kalivoda, assistant secretary for the Louisiana Department of […]
No smooth road ahead for transportation bill (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Georgia to get $316 million less in highway funds this year
It is supposed to be the biggest overhaul in recent history to the nation’s transportation system, a $500 billion package that would add new lanes to the most congested highways, launch new mass-transit projects and totally […]
States Rush to Avoid Losing $9 Billion in Highway Funds (Wall Street Journal)
WASHINGTON — States are urging Congress and the White House to act fast to change a law that may soon deprive them of nearly $9 billion in federal highway funds, the equivalent of roughly one-third of the amount in the economic-stimulus package.
In a […]
Transportation Group Launches New Ad Campaign (AASHTO)
“It makes no sense to build part of a highway…. It makes even less sense to pass only part of a highway bill.” That is the message to Congress in the latest advertisement placed by the Transportation Construction Coalition in prominent Capitol Hill news outlets.
The ad outlines for Congress […]
Some NC road projects planned before stimulus (ACT)
Sep 28, 11:07 AM EDT
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — At first, the $13 million repaving of a 10-mile stretch of Interstate 26 in North Carolina wasn’t a stimulus project. Then it was. Now it may not be.
The Asheville Citizen-Times reported Monday that the state Transportation Department had planned to […]
Requests for TIGER Grants Far Exceed Funding Availability (AASHTO Journal)
State transportation departments and other government entities have requested $57 billion in discretionary grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s new TIGER program, the department announced this afternoon.
“We have received an outpouring of creative and innovative transportation project proposals from across the country,” said […]
House Approves 3-Month Extension (AASHTO Journal)
The House of Representatives voted 335-85 Wednesday evening to approve a bill that would extend federal highway and transit programs until the end of this year. But the legislation does not address a looming $8.7 billion rescission of existing contract authority set to hit state transportation departments next week.Federal […]
