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TRANSPORTATION FOR AMERICA
America’s infrastructure is beginning to show its age. Our nation’s roads, highways and bridges have
increasingly received failing scores on maintenance and upkeep…
John Hennessy III,
P.E.
TRANSPORTATION FOR AMERICA
America’s infrastructure is beginning to show its age. Our nation’s roads, highways and bridges have
increasingly received failing scores on maintenance and upkeep…
MTA Long Island Rail Road is conducting an environmental review of its proposed replacement of the Colonial Road Bridge in Great Neck and extension of an existing pocket or turning track crucial to improving service on the Port Washington Branch.
View this complete post...“Terry OʼSullivan, who is the wonderful President of the [Laborers International Union of North America], Terry sponsored, just with their funds, billboards in four states…They put up a billboard, as youʼre about to cross a bridge that was declared structurally deficient, and the billboard says, ‘The bridge you are about to cross is structurally deficient’
-Edward G. Rendell, former Pennsylvania Governor & Co-Chair of Building America’s Future (Guest on The Infra Blog)
Edward G. Rendell, Pennsylvania’s 45th Governor, began a second term of office on January 16, 2007, following a landslide re-election victory. As Governor, Rendell served as chief executive of the nation’s 6th-most-populous state and oversaw a $27.5 billion budget. Governor Rendell is also Co-Chair of Building America’s Future, alongside Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California.
View this complete post...With warmer weather comes the melting and refreezing that is the main cause of those potholes we see popping up on our roadways. MoDOT crews routinely scout for potholes and make temporary repairs to the pavement…As fuel prices continue to rise, so do the number of passengers on the Missouri River Runner. In fact, a heightened demand for seats recently caused Amtrak to add two additional cars on the St. Louis to Kansas City run. Since June, the Missouri River Runner has seen a jump in passengers of nearly 16 percent.
View this complete post...SMART GROWTH AMERICA
Michigan’s budget and economy face significant challenges. These challenges create the opportunity and the imperative to ask if we’re getting everything we can from our spending.
THE COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS
Rural areas face a looming highway capacity crisis in the years ahead unless significant investments are made. But rural areas need substantially different kinds of investments, tools to finance rural transportation projects and policy strategies than urban areas need. For many rural states, adequately funding roads and bridges is still the primary issue, much more than public transit, high speed rail and other transportation solutions that may make more sense in densely populated areas.
BROOKINGS-ROCKEFELLER PROJECT ON STATE AND METROPOLITAN INNOVATION
A 21st century state transportation strategy that strengthens metropolitan America and is tightly linked to the vital elements of the next economy is critical for our nation to emerge from the rubble of the recession. Yet state transportation systems face two overarching challenges: they are both broke and broken.
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