Tag: Infrastructure Funding

July 28, 2022

Federal funds to enhance safety and connectivity across the country’s mobility networks will become available over the next few months to help state agencies make improvements to freight corridors, and also propel adoption of new technologies throughout the transportation landscape. […]

February 22, 2021

The White House says its attention is squarely on Covid relief, but talk in Washington is slowly but surely starting to shift to infrastructure. Last week, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that “probably tax increases” would be used to pay […]

November 16, 2020

Pennsylvania’s Public Private Transportation Partnership (P3) Board approved Thursday a program that the state hopes will accelerate bridge reconstruction and rehabilitation. Through the Major Bridge P3 program, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) will be able to accelerate work on […]

November 4, 2020

Maryland Transportation Secretary Gregory Slater met with Anne Arundel County officials Monday to discuss the Maryland Department of transportation’s proposed six-year capital budget. The meeting is part of the MDOT’s annual tour of all 23 Maryland counties, as well as […]

October 29, 2020

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is preparing a 2021 legislative agenda with two “great, big initiatives” — expanding health care access and rebuilding American infrastructure — that are longtime Democratic priorities aligned with Joe Biden’s platform and taking on fresh urgency […]

September 4, 2020

Kentucky officials recently announced funding will be directed to industrial access road infrastructure projects to promote economic development and the movement of freight. Specifically, the funding will support access roads linking to industrial parks in Warren, Barren and Fulton counties. […]

June 29, 2020

The House is set to pass its $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill, H.R. 2 (116), this week, advancing, among many other things, a five-year reauthorization of surface transportation programs. Passage of the Democrat-written bill is a given in the House, but […]

June 2, 2020

With progress still stalled over a next coronavirus response package, lawmakers are pivoting to other priorities, including surface transportation. The text of the House’s surface bill is expected to come out this week, our Tanya Snyder reports. Lobbyists are preparing […]

February 10, 2020

The Trump administration will release its fiscal 2021 budget proposal today. Here’s what we know: The proposal includes $1 trillion for infrastructure, over the next decade, offset by savings in mandatory spending (a funding method which has been repeatedly rejected […]

January 31, 2020

House Transportation Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) is already getting an earful from his fellow members after joining Nancy Pelosi to roll out House Democrats’ infrastructure plans. As our Tanya Snyder reports, he’s facing an onslaught of member asks on priorities […]

January 29, 2020

House Democrats are rolling out an infrastructure framework today, anchored by Transportation Chairman Peter DeFazio’s surface transportation bill, which POLITICO got a draft of. The climate-centric proposal will be a radical departure from past highway-era bills, DeFazio said. “It is […]

January 22, 2020

A week after putting out a clean transportation plan that would boost electric vehicles, the former New York mayor and presidential candidate is releasing an infrastructure plan. As our Tanya Snyder analyzes, it’s an ambitious $1.2 trillion, 10-year blueprint for […]

June 11, 2019

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has signed an infrastructure bill providing funds for road and bridge projects in every city and town in the state. The legislation, known as “an act financing improvements to municipal roads and bridges,” authorizes $200 million […]

May 13, 2019

IT’S INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK: No, really. The official Infrastructure Week put on by a group of trade associations, unions, think tanks and companies kicks off Monday. It’s well timed. The event comes as attention in D.C. is already squarely focused on […]

April 30, 2019

THE BUILD UP: Infrastructure advocates have been hyping up today’s meeting between Trump and a dozen Democratic congressional leaders. Neil Bradley, a U.S. Chamber of Commerce executive, said it could be “historic” and drew comparisons to President Ronald Reagan and […]

March 14, 2019

WASHINGTON — The leaders of the congressional committees tasked with crafting an infrastructure policy bill continue to disagree over a sustainable approach for ensuring the country’s transportation network is funded long term. While Republicans express support for a vehicle-miles-traveled fee […]

March 7, 2019

The Washington state Senate Transportation Committee passed a $15 billion transportation package March 6 that includes $450 million for a new Interstate 5 bridge across the Columbia River. The project has been a priority for Clark County lawmakers, who have […]

January 10, 2019

Funding infrastructure projects transportation officials and freight executives around the country agree are badly needed for reducing congestion and to boost regional economies was high on the list of priorities for the new Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. […]

November 2, 2018

Encouraging spending on roads, bridges and other infrastructure could be one of the rare areas where a Democrat-controlled Congress finds common ground with the Trump administration. Private investors in such projects aren’t relying on any breakthroughs, regardless of how next […]

September 20, 2017

The rare opportunity of reforming the federal corporate tax code and ensuring long-term funding for freight infrastructure in the coming months prompted the Association of Equipment Manufacturers to recently schedule its own meetings on Capitol Hill and the White House. […]