President Trump, without any fanfare this week, again declared that it is “Infrastructure Week.” Who knows why he did that since official activities planned for Infrastructure Week are scheduled for May. There are other significant unanswered questions. If Trump wants to make U.S. infrastructure a priority, why did he threaten to shut down government last week over attempts to include funding for an infrastructure project in the spending bill?
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President supports funding non-essential California infrastructure project …but fights funding for critical New York project impacting 800,000 motorists a day and 20% of GDP
Wednesday, April 4th, 2018Infrastructure funding in the new budget bill – here’s where it will go
Monday, March 26th, 2018Infrastructure experts are calling the $21.2 billion in new federal infrastructure funding in the omnibus federal spending bill “a good first step.” But, they know all too well that it’s only a “tip of the iceberg” solution. Sadly, the additional funding for infrastructure projects is woefully short of what’s needed.
View this complete post...ACEC’S ENGINEERING INC. — The Legislative Engineer
Thursday, March 22nd, 2018
“I believe we need more engineers in elected office across the board. I talk to a lot of engineering groups and to engineering students, and I always encourage them to get involved in politics, whether they are going to run for office or not. The fact is the laws and rules propagated by those in elected office can have a lot of impact on engineering careers and what happens with the economy. It’s just important that engineers become more involved. I don’t know the exact number of engineers currently in Congress, but I do know there are two engineers who were just elected by special elections—Ron Estes, R-Kansas, and Greg Gianforte, R-Montana.”
View this complete post...Guest on The Infra Blog: Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR)
Tuesday, March 20th, 2018
DJ Gribbin, and others gathered at the White House, want to devolve the burden onto the local governments and the states, pretend they did something, and that’s it. It’s all ideology, and part of Paul Ryan is ideology. All the people are fighting against real investment. They’re doing it from the ideology, including the hypocrisy of Grover Norquist who blessed the five cent increase in the inland diesel tax and called it a user fee. But, if we want to increase the diesel or gas tax on trucks and cars, “No, that’s a tax, you can’t do that.” What a bunch of shit.
View this complete post...TRIP Report: Preserving the Mobility and Safety of Older Americans
Tuesday, March 20th, 2018
Today’s older Americans enjoy a level of mobility and an active lifestyle that far outpaces previous generations. Demographic trends indicate that the number and proportion of older Americans have increased dramatically in recent years and will continue to do so. The provision of transportation improvements that will make it easier for older American’s to maintain their mobility will benefit users of all ages. And anticipated developments in self-driving and connected vehicles have the potential to provide older Americans with additional mobility options in the future.
View this complete post...Guest on The Infra Blog: Congressman Tom Reed (R-NY, 23rd District)
Thursday, March 8th, 2018
If you can at least organize and come to that common ground, and actually put your name on it like we did with the Problem Solvers Caucus Consensus Position, it carries much more weight…What you see in the Problem Solvers Caucus Infrastructure Proposal is exactly that. Much of this is common sense; much of this are things that the American people, I think, will look at and go, “That’s exactly what we’re looking for; that’s exactly the kind of reforms; that’s the kind of expansion of traditional infrastructure and the non-traditional infrastructure improvements like broadband that need to be done.”
View this complete post...Identifying State Freight Plan Best Practices
Thursday, March 8th, 2018
AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE 1.0 Introduction The movement of freight across town, across the nation or around the globe, relies on the joint effort of the public and private sectors. The United States transportation system is arguably the largest in the world with assets estimated at more than $8.0 trillion in 2014: “Transportation assets are […]
View this complete post...Environmental Defense Fund: Financing Sustainable Infrastructure
Tuesday, March 6th, 2018
A new report from the Environmental Defense Fund and Meister Consulting Group examines innovative financing approaches to sustainable infrastructure. The sustainable infrastructure market is growing across the United States and is increasingly driven by state or local requirements or sustainability goals. Built and managed to meet economic, environmental and social goals, sustainable infrastructure enables government to meet multiple goals by integrating environmental and social co-benefits. The new report introduces an Investment Design Framework featuring four key elements to assist local governments in creating “investment-ready” projects.
View this complete post...Watch these cities for innovative leadership
Monday, March 5th, 2018“Innovation” could be municipal government’s middle name. When it comes to creativity and resourcefulness – city leaders take a backseat to no one. Local public officials don’t have the luxury of living on the periphery of problems. Instead, they live in the middle of every issue on a daily basis. They, unlike state and federal officials, are easily accessible. Perhaps that’s what has caused them to be innovative and creative in finding remedies and solutions. Or, perhaps these traits are a result of dealing with the largest problem of all – inadequate funding. Whatever the reason, municipal leaders have become known for out-of-the box thinking, innovative problem solving and visionary collaboration.
View this complete post...Plugging In: Readying U.S. Cities for the Arrival of Electric Vehicles
Thursday, March 1st, 2018
The number of EVs on America’s streets is at an all-time high. Throughout 2016, sales of plug-in electric vehicles increased nearly 38 percent.2 In 2017, sales of electric vehicles were up again, increasing 32 percent over the year.3 The introduction of the Chevy Bolt, Tesla’s Model 3 and other affordable, long-range electric vehicles suggests that growth in EV sales is just beginning. In fact, Chevrolet’s Bolt EV was named Motor Trend’s 2017 Car of the Year. But with more EVs on the road, and many more coming soon, cities will face the challenge of where electric vehicles will charge, particularly in city centers and neighborhoods without off-street residential parking.
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