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City Success Factors, part IV
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011The Fix We’re In For: The State of Our Nation’s Bridges – Metropolitan Bridge Rankings
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
TRANSPORTATION FOR AMERICA
Structurally deficient bridges in metropolitan areas carry a disproportionate share of all trips taken on a deficient bridge each day. In fact, deficient bridges in the largest 102 metropolitan areas carry three-quarters of all traffic crossing a deficient bridge. Put another way, there are more deficient bridges in these 102 regions than there are McDonald’s restaurants in the entire country – 18,239 versus about million 14,000. Worldwide, McDonald’s serves a staggering 64 million people a day. But here in America, 210 million trips are taken daily across deficient bridges in just these 102 regions.
Discretionary Grant Programs: State by State
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION
FY 2011 Discretionary Program Awards: Alternative Analysis (AA), State of Good Repair (SOGP), & Bus Livability
President’s Jobs Council: Invest Aggressively in Transportation
Monday, October 17th, 2011Transportation Issues Daily AASHTO, the national association of State DOTs, reports in their weekly transportation report: “While debate about job creation continued in Washington this week, the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness met Tuesday in Pittsburgh. The council released a report urging the federal government to “invest aggressively and efficiently in cutting-edge infrastructure.” The […]
View this complete post...Highway Trust Fund: All States Received More Funding Than They Contributed in Highway Taxes from 2005 to 2009
Friday, October 14th, 2011
US GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE What GAO Found From 2005 to 2009, every state received more funding for highway programs than they contributed to the Highway Account of the Highway Trust Fund. This was possible because more funding was authorized and apportioned than was collected from the states, and the fund was augmented with about $30 […]
View this complete post...Congestion Data for Your City
Thursday, October 13th, 2011
TEXAS TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE
Each regional map has dots linking to a file containing the Urban Mobility and Congestion Statistics—congestion index, travel delay, fuel consumption, congestion cost—for every city included in the study. The files are in PDF format. You can get the numbers—all the numbers—for each of the 101 cities. You can also view the national congestion tables which provide comparison measurements for all 101 cities included in the study.
Infrastructure Bank is DOA in House, Mica Declares
Thursday, October 13th, 2011Transportation Issues Daily House Transportation Chair John Mica opened a hearing on an infrastructure bank by stating “I’m afraid that the national infrastructure bank is dead on arrival in the House.” The lone witness in favor of creating a federal infrastructure bank, Marcia Hale, president of Building America’s Future, observed a federal infrastructure bank is […]
View this complete post...Reinventing the Urban Interstate: A New Paradigm for Multimodal Corridors
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
TRANSIT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM
The objectives of this research were to (1) evaluate the potential for rehabilitating and reconstructing portions of interstate freeways and similar freeways in the urbanized areas in the United States as new paradigm multimodal transportation facilities and (2) develop strategies to plan and implement these facilities. These facilities might be better used by people, if the facilities offer passenger mobility by multiple modes and are better integrated into
communities.
Bridging the Partisan Divide
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011Innovation NewsBriefs Vol.22, No. 28 Two infrastructure-focused meetings on Capitol Hill — one sponsored by the liberal-leaning (or “center-left” as they prefer to be called) Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), the other by the conservative-leaning Free Congress Foundation — have sent an encouraging signal that, when it comes to investment in transportation, the partisan divide is […]
View this complete post...A Strong EPA Protects Our Health and Promotes Economic Growth
Monday, October 10th, 2011US COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS
Since implementation of the Clean Air Act in the 1970s, followed by the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, Superfund, and other important environmental laws, America’s gross domestic product (GDP) has risen by 207 percent, and it remains the largest in the world. Complying with the nation’s public health and environmental protection laws has bolstered a $300 billion a year clean technology sector that employs an estimated 1.7 million people.
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