Tag: infrastructure

January 9, 2019

DRIVERS OF GASOLINE-POWERED cars have it easy. Gas stations are everywhere. Fill-ups take just a few minutes. Drivers of electric vehicles, not so much. Public charging stations are far from ubiquitous, and boosting a battery means spending at least half […]

January 2, 2019

— A new year means a fresh start for infrastructure legislation efforts, but they could run up against some familiar obstacles as the divided Congress gets to work. We examine how things could play out in the early going, plus […]

December 21, 2018

Remember how President Donald Trump was said to be all on board with working with Democrats on an infrastructure package? Not so fast… after failing to secure border wall funding in a year-end spending deal, he tweeted: “The Democrats, who […]

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 […]

October 12, 2018

‘COMMONALITY’ ON INFRASTRUCTURE? President Donald Trump said Thursday in an interview with Fox and Friends that he sees infrastructure as a top area for cooperation if Democrats take the House in November. He doesn’t think that’s going to happen, but […]

July 18, 2018

Despite his lame-duck status, Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is ordering a $10 million study on placing electronic tolls on the state’s highways and finding ways to fund needed transportation improvements. “As Connecticut’s General Assembly and next governor consider how […]

June 13, 2018

A fire caused by a car crash, inside a 2.5-mile tunnel under a major American city. It’s a terrifying idea, but if you want that kind of problem to ignite anywhere, it’s in the stretch of State Route 99 that, […]

May 25, 2018

Infrastructure Week became infrastructure weeks, and the months may yet turn into years, dear MT readers. Our Lauren Gardner writes: “With President Donald Trump’s big infrastructure vision resigned to claiming small wins among expected reauthorizations, lobbyists are beginning to look […]

May 11, 2018

House Republican leaders have dumped thousands of dollars into a campaign in California to repeal the state’s 2017 gas tax hike via ballot measure in “a move that stands in contrast to the Trump administration’s preference that states cough up […]

April 5, 2018

With Tuesday’s news that White House infrastructure guru DJ Gribbin is leaving his post, Beltway infrastructure geeks got existential: What does it all mean? Gribbin was the infrastructure plan’s architect and a point person for lobbyists around town working the […]