The Senate Democrats’ “Blueprint to Rebuild America’s Infrastructure” would make a historic $1 trillion federal investment to modernize our crumbling infrastructure and create more than 15 million jobs that our economy desperately needs.
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A Blueprint to Rebuild America’s Infrastructure: Creating Over 15 Million New Jobs
Friday, February 3rd, 2017Millions of jobs are in infrastructure repair, but will we create them?
Thursday, February 2nd, 2017
Now, our infrastructure needs another upgrade, and an entire sector of workers who haven’t recovered from the recession need jobs. Infrastructure repair can create those jobs. It has happened before, but will it happen again? And when the dust has settled, will America be satisfied with the results?
View this complete post...Airport modernization – next big wave of infrastructure Projects
Wednesday, February 1st, 2017
Operational inefficiencies, passenger congestion, limited retail, access in and out of terminals and the negative passenger experience found in almost every U.S. airport is the result of outdated design, increasingly high demand, a lack of funding investment and a tendency to reject the concept of collaborating with private-sector experts. That, however, is changing.
View this complete post...Robert Reich: Trump’s Infrastructure Scam
Thursday, January 26th, 2017
Robert Reich explains why Trump’s infrastructure plan is really a scam meant to benefit the wealthy and corporations.
View this complete post...Trump’s Infrastructure Proposal Could Create 11 Million Jobs
Wednesday, January 18th, 2017
President-elect Trump has proposed to spend up to $1 trillion over the next 10 years on America’s infrastructure, including transportation, energy, telecommunications, and border security…The significant spending increase envisioned in President-elect Trump’s proposal raises concerns about inflation and interest rate hikes but would also create millions of new jobs. If enacted, the infrastructure program could put the United States back on a pre-recession job growth path and create more than 11 million jobs.
View this complete post...Beyond Traffic 2045
Friday, January 13th, 2017
Beyond Traffic 2045 is U.S. DOT’s most comprehensive assessment of current and future conditions in decades—it is a call to action. After years of chronic underinvestment and policy choices that, in some cases, have actually worked at cross purposes with the broader economic and social goals held by most Americans, now is the time for a report like this one to be read, understood, considered—and used, to breathe new life into funding and policy discussions at all levels.
View this complete post...Public officials in need of funding for infrastructure projects should check out the Build America Bureau!
Thursday, December 29th, 2016
Last week, DOT announced another groundbreaking financial tool – a product of the Build America Bureau – and provided an example. The Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) and the Build America Bureau signed a pioneering, first-of-its-kind Master Credit Agreement (MCA). The agreement lays a foundation for working together to initiate four transit projects in the Seattle area. The projects, now that they are consolidated, will be eligible to receive close to $2 billion in financing. As a result of the MCA, the Build America Bureau will be able to close one deal that covers multiple projects.
View this complete post...Now is the time for voters to let Congress know their feelings about infrastructure and jobs in America
Thursday, December 22nd, 2016
It would be wonderful – and significantly helpful – if taxpayers and public officials showed an outpouring of support for rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure. Congressional representatives need to know, without doubt, that there is home-town support for this. Without seeing support from constituents, it’s possible that the program could get delayed long enough to die a sad death. If that happens, the U.S. will remain vulnerable in the race for global leadership… and thousands of jobs that could have been created will be remembered only as “what might have been.”
View this complete post...Missouri: Citizen’s Guide to Transportation Funding
Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
The many layers of transportation policy and funding are murky at best, and many times downright impenetrable. Fortunately for a few of us, the Missouri Department of Transportation recently created an online tool to make funding, legislation and project selection transparent and easy to understand.
View this complete post...Infrastructure Spending Trends
Friday, December 2nd, 2016
This paper confronts perceived infrastructure failings with the data on public and private real infrastructure spending over recent decades. Interestingly, the data do not immediately point to a specific explanation for the poor perceived state of infrastructure. Accordingly, we turn to some possibilities that might explain the gap, such as changes in infrastructure needs and the quality of infrastructure spending.
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