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Vol. 23, No. 11
By a vote of 74-22 on March 14, the Senate passed an 18-month highway bill (S. 1813) reauthorizing the federal surface transportation program through the end of FY 2013. Twenty-two senators, all Republican, voted against the final bill.
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The Fiscal Implications of the Senate Highway Bill (S.1813)
Friday, March 16th, 2012A Lost Opportunity to Influence the Debate
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012Innovation NewsBriefsVol. 23, No. 7 The President’s FY 2013 budget submission offered the Administration a rare opportunity to rise above partisanship and influence the ongoing transportation reauthorization debate in a positive way. It provided a chance for the White House and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to assume a constructive role in mediating what could turn […]
View this complete post...Member of SAFETEA-LU Blue Ribbon Commission Weighs in on Senate, House Bills
Thursday, February 16th, 2012Transportation Issues Daily Four years ago a Congressionally-appointed bipartisan Commission offered recommendations for post-SAFETEA-LU federal transportation policy and funding. We asked a member of that Commission, Frank Busalacchi, to comment on the current Senate and House legislative proposals. Busalacchi, former Secretary of the Wisconsin DOT, served on the bi-partisan National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study […]
View this complete post...In Defense of the House Highway Bill
Monday, February 13th, 2012Innovation NewsBriefs Vol. 23, No.6 According to the latest (January) CBO estimates, the Highway Account of the Trust Fund is projected to be credited with $168.4 billion in gas tax revenue and interest over the next five years (FY 2012-2016) and the Transit Account with $24.8 billion. Since the House Ways and Means Committee has […]
View this complete post...The Economic Impact and Financing of Infrastructure Spending
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT DISTRIBUTORS
The goal of this report is to understand the short- and long-term effects of public infrastructure spending on the U.S. economy, as well as to contribute new suggestions towards alternative financing of future road construction.
Transportation For America: Oppose House Bill
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012From Transportation For America: Friday was a shocking day in the House of Representatives. A House committee majority went ahead with their plan to punish everyone who rides public transportation, as well as jeopardizing thousands of jobs in the public transit, construction and manufacturing industries. In doing this, House leadership and this committee ignored broad, […]
View this complete post...America 2050: House Wages War on Transit
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012From America 2050: Last week, more than two years after the nation’s last five-year surface transportation law expired, the House of Representatives introduced its proposed legislation for rewriting the nation’s transportation laws. And boy, it is a doozy. Facing severely reduced gasoline tax receipts, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has proposed to cut many […]
View this complete post...Why Pleas to Increase Infrastructure Funding Fall on Deaf Ears
Monday, February 6th, 2012Innovation NewsBriefs Vol. 23, No. 5 Letting the nation’s roads and bridges deteriorate may worsen traffic congestion and add to our commuting woes, but when water and sewer systems begin to fail our very civilization is at risk. That is the message of a recent story in The Washington Post drawing attention to the alarming […]
View this complete post...House to Change “Mass Transit” Program to “Alternative Transportation” Program
Friday, February 3rd, 2012Transportation Issues Daily The House Transportation multi-year transportation proposal (“American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Financing Act of 2012”) maintains the roughly 80/20 split of funding to highways/transit. But it contains several changes to the transit section: Mass Transit Account to be renamed Alternative Transportation Account Mass Transit Account funding for 2012 to be transferred to […]
View this complete post...New House Transportation Proposal Would Reform Project Environmental Review
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012Transportation Issues Daily House Transportation Chair John Mica intends to release text of the “American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs” act perhaps as soon as Friday. Action is tentatively scheduled for February 2. See “Federal Transportation Bill Moving in House” and “5 Big Proposed Changes in the New House Transportation Bill Proposal” for more information. The […]
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