Building America’s Future’s just released a report entitled, Falling Apart and Falling Behind. InfrastructureUSA’s Managing Director Steve Anderson discussed the findings with former Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell, a Co-Chair of President of Building America’s Future’s Educational Fund (BAF), and Marcia Hale, President of BAF.
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Building America’s Future: Falling Apart and Falling Behind
Thursday, August 11th, 2011America THINKS 2011: Corridors of the Future Survey
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
AMERICA THINKS
According to the latest America THINKS survey from HNTB Corporation, people are fed up with congested, crumbling roads and are looking for decisions from local and regional officials about how to prioritize fixing them.
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Monday, August 8th, 2011
BUILDING AMERICA’S FUTURE
Rebuilding America’s economic foundation is one of the most important missions we face in the 21st century. Our parents and grandparents built America into the world’s leading economic superpower. We have a responsibility to our own children and grandchildren to strengthen—not squander —that inheritance, and to pass on to them a country whose best days are still ahead.
View this complete post...Florida: FL 836 to I-95 Miami, FL
Thursday, August 4th, 2011This video begins along FL 836 at the toll booth near Little Havana in Miami, FL and concludes at NW 103 Street (Exit 8B) on I-95 in northern Miami-Dade County. Along the way, you’ll see Miami’s only major freeway that runs east and west, the Downtown skyline, the new MLB Florida Marlins’ stadium under construction, […]
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Thursday, August 4th, 2011UNITED STATES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Written by: Bruce Josten
For the sake of near- and long-term job creation, stronger economic growth, and enhanced U.S. competitiveness, the Chamber strongly supports robust surface transportation reauthorization legislation that addresses revenue shortfalls and includes necessary and urgent policy and program reforms.
View this complete post...How Might Transportation Funding be Impacted by Debt Deal?
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011TRANSPORTATION ISSUES DAILY
Whether by the hands of the new fiscal commission or through the alternative automatic cuts, federal transportation funding is going to decline dramatically compared to recent years. The Senate transportation proposal, which counted on a $12 billion infusion of general funding, suddenly looks just a little less attainable. So too is the prospect of a better-funded bill in two years, if Congress doesn’t pass a bill this year.
View this complete post...Time Lapse of Construction on I-90, WA
Monday, August 1st, 2011WSDOT and crews are in the third construction season on the I-90 Snoqualmie Pass — Hyak to Keechelus Dam project. In this time lapse video, you can watch construction of the Gold Creek Bridges from 2010 — 2011. In 2010, crews installed 120-foot deep bridge foundations, and part of the animal under crossing at Gold […]
View this complete post...Transportation and Regional Infrastructure Project (TRIP) Bonds
Friday, July 29th, 2011
Looking to leverage private investment and an untapped market for tax credit bonding to rebuild America’s transportation infrastructure, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Mark Begich (D-Alaska) have introduced legislation to create a tax credit bond program dedicated to transportation infrastructure. Transportation and Regional Infrastructure Project bonds or TRIPs will be a financing tool to fund the rebuilding of the nation’s crumbling transportation infrastructure.
View this complete post...The Rough Road Ahead: What is the Cost?
Friday, July 29th, 2011
The American Society of Civil Engineers has released an accompanying infographic to their recently released report. “The nation’s deteriorating surface transportation infrastructure will cost the American economy more than 870,000 jobs, and suppress the growth of the country’s Gross Domestic Product by $3.1 trillion by 2020. The report showed that in 2010, deficiencies in America’s […]
View this complete post...Failure to Act: The Economic Impact of Current Investment Trends in Surface Transportation Infrastructure
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS
The nation’s surface transportation infrastructure includes the critical highways, bridges, railroads, and transit systems that enable people and goods to access the markets, services, and inputs of production essential to America’s economic vitality. For many years, the nation’s surface transportation infrastructure has been deteriorating. Yet because this deterioration has been diffused throughout the nation, and has occurred gradually over time, its true costs and economic impacts are not always immediately apparent.
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