The Reason Foundation’s Annual Highway Report found that the nation’s highway conditions are deteriorating, especially in a group of problem-plagued states that are falling behind on repairing deficient bridges, maintaining interstate pavement and reducing urban traffic congestion.
New bill would authorize $287 billion over five years, with that total marking an increase of over 27% from levels of the FAST Act highway bill.
The Democratic leaders of Capitol Hill emerged from a “good will” meeting to report that a bipartisan agreement had been reached to introduce to Congress a $2 trillion plan to modernize the nation's infrastructure.
An alarming report on the state of the nation’s bridges shows that over 47,000 bridges in the United States are rated structurally deficient and in need of urgent repairs.
What’s holding back development and passage of a monumental infrastructure package is not politics. It’s plain old wrong-headed thinking, says Executive Editor David Cullen in his Passing Zone blog.
Traffic is a major time suck and it only seems to be getting worse, according to ATRI's latest list of the most congested bottlenecks for trucks in the U.S. This year, a bottleneck in Fort Lee, New Jersey took top honors.
In his State of the Union address, President Trump again said he wants America’s infrastructure revamped and implied that Congress still does, too – but he offered no new details on how to go about it.
As Virginia lawmakers work to try to address congestion problems on I-81, including a controversial toll proposal that critics say is unfair to trucking, one creative proposal has come up that would put trucks on trains – drivers and all.
Volvo Group Venture Capital, a subsidiary of Volvo Group, has announced an investment in Momentum Dynamics, a compay that is developing high power wireless charging technology for electric vehicles.
Jim Tymon also backs upgrading of the Highway Trust Fund and notes that state DOTs must replace retiring staffers.
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