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Delayed for two decades, Tampa Bay is breaking ground on the city’s most expensive road project to date — a $389.5 million toll road that will link Interstate 4 with an expressway.
The Department of Transportation will furlough nearly 2,000 employees without pay today, temporarily shutting down highway reimbursements to states worth hundreds of millions of dollars, national anti-drunk driving efforts, and multi-million dollar construction projects across the country.
While Majority Leader Harry Reid makes promises during the debate of the $15B jobs bill, U.S. DOT Secretary Ray LaHood admits our roads and bridges are in “lousy” shape.
More than half of the funds for transportation in the U.S. economic stimulus plan passed a year ago have now been obligated, and much of it is fixing the country's decaying infrastructure. According to Rep. James Oberstar, 24,000 miles of roads are being improved and 1,100 bridge repairs made.
Four towns that agreed to cover the $20 million cost of building interchanges to the southern extension of I-355 are now negotiating with the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority to add a payment schedule to the agreement.
This year’s TIGER grants announced this week seemed fixed upon transit and related clean projects, while roads were somewhat overlooked, garnering a mere one-eighth of the program’s $1.5 billion of available funding — despite the fact that roads proposals made up 57 percent of applications.
In this editorial, Herbert expounds on why ignoring U.S. infrastructure problems imperils public safety, diminishes our economic competitiveness, is penny-wise and pound-foolish, and results in tremendous missed opportunities to create new jobs on a vast scale. "Competitors are leaving us behind when it comes to infrastructure investment," he says. "China is building a network of 42 high-speed rail lines, while the U.S. has yet to build its first."
Today, the Department of Transportation announced $1.5 billion in Transportation Investments Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants. The money went to more than 50 projects in states ranging from Maine to Hawaii to South Carolina. So which states walked away with the biggest piece of pie? Read on for the rundown.
Known as the DFW Connector, the four-year project will see the rebuilding and expansion of roads between Lake Grapevine and the Dallas-Fort Worth airport.
New York’s ambitious experiment that closed parts of Broadway to vehicles last spring will become permanent, city officials said last week, even though it fell short of achieving its chief objective: improving traffic flow.
In an effort to ease clogged highways and spur economic development, business leaders have unveiled an ambitious, nearly $10 billion plan to create rail lines and tolled express lanes, and expanded bus service for Central Indiana.
New York residents are still debating the ambitious revamping over the past few months of a rotary called Park Circle at the southwest corner of Prospect Park.
Bills introduced in December set up an authority to govern a proposed system of 406 miles of improved buses and routes, light rail and commuter trains throughout Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties and in the city of Detroit.
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has released a report that examines the international leaders in intelligent transportation systems and suggests steps the United States should take to close the gap.
The Florida Department of Transportation Research Center has released a report that explores the development of three alternatives to open grid steel decks on moveable bridges.
New York residents are still debating the ambitious revamping over the past few months of a rotary called Park Circle at the southwest corner of Prospect Park.
