John Hennessy III,
P.E.
Originally posted on Faster Better Safer, the blog of Americans for Transportation Mobility The story of America’s faltering infrastructure (deteriorating roads and bridges and strained waterways and ports) is playing out in ways that consumers, manufacturers and suppliers are feeling. Whether it’s higher home prices because the raw materials that go into the building process are […]
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John Drake, Executive Director of the ATM, discusses the IIJA in this quick-hit “ATM Rewind” video about the importance of coalescing around improving the nation’s aged transportation network.
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Originally posted on Faster Better Safer, the blog of Americans for Transportation Mobility With local, regional and national leaders focused on what the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) will deliver to America, the Americans for Transportation Mobility (ATM) Coalition is releasing a trio of short videos that highlight three regional voices explaining why the […]
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Left: the installation of a new sanitary sewer line for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, Ariz. Contractors on infrastructure projects work with all kinds of equipment. Right: workers on a deep job for a new 30-inch sewer line for the City of Chandler, Ariz. Municipal pipes, drinking water and stormwater are ongoing U.S. concerns. […]
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Originally posted on Faster Better Safer, the blog of Americans for Transportation Mobility Listen to the 14-minute podcast The message from National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA) President & CEO Michael Johnson is diplomatic, but also direct: Americans have always rallied around building a better country for their children and their children‘s children, and today […]
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America is inching closer to a monumental investment and policy framework for modernizing our transportation system and building next-generation infrastructure.
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“Infrastructure investment has become a perennial topic in America and we know we have a lot of policy issues to resolve, but we don’t want the nation’s transportation needs to be minimized,” says ATM Executive Director Ed Mortimer. “We wanted to do something that has some creative punch.”
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It’s a Friday afternoon after a week of frigid temperatures and winter storms and Gary Johnson is speaking with the Americans for Transportation Mobility (ATM) Coalition about the necessity for viable and sustainable federal transportation investment.
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One billion dollars worth of business a day and three percent of yearly GDP move over that bridge alone. But this southeastern nexus between the Bluegrass State and Ohio has been functionally obsolete (capacity wise) for 20 years. At 3 a.m. two weeks ago, colliding semi-trailers, with one hauling the caustic chemical potassium hydroxide, resulted in a catastrophic accident, a fire, traffic backups, and a damaged and temporarily closed bridge.
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Member organizations of the Americans for Transportation Mobility (ATM) Coalition took part in a recent national Radio Media Tour (RMT). They advocated a Congressional furtherance of the FAST Act and for a longer-term federal investment plan to rebuild aging highways, bridges and public transit.
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