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Why a 60-day Extension of SAFETEA-LU Is Problematic
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012Talking Infrastructure at the 5th Annual Transportation and Infrastructure Convention
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Steven CF Anderson, Managing Director of InfrastructureUSA was a participant at the 5th Annual Transportation and Infrastructure Convention, held from March 7th to March 9th in Washington, DC.
Steve also spoke with John Horsley, Executive Director of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officals (AASHTO), Bill Johnson, Director for the Port of Miami, and Mortimer Downey, former Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation, currently Senior Advisor, Parsons Brinckerhoff.
View this complete post...The Fiscal Implications of the Senate Highway Bill (S.1813) — Part II
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012Innovation NewsBriefs
Vol. 23, No. 12
On March 14, by a vote of 74-22, 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.
View this complete post...The Fiscal Implications of the Senate Highway Bill (S.1813)
Friday, March 16th, 2012Innovation NewsBriefs
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.
An “Unserious” White House Proposal
Friday, February 24th, 2012By: Ken Orski
Innovation NewsBriefs
Vol. 23, No. 8
The Administration’s $476 billion six-year transportation reauthorization proposal —included as part of its FY 2013 budget submission —has met with indifference if not outright skepticism in the Washington transportation community. For one thing, the proposal comes at a time when both houses of Congress have already developed and are actively pursuing their own versions of reauthorization legislation.
A 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...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...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...Six U.S. Transportation Secretaries Discuss Past and Future Challenges
Friday, January 27th, 2012Speaking to a standing-room-only audience on January 25 at the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington, six U.S. transportation secretaries reminisced about the most challenging issues they faced during their tenures and offered their views about the future prospects for the federal transportation program.
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