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This Week in Infrastructure: Finding Funding for the Highway Trust Fund

May 9, 2014 | By: Becky Moylan

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing this week on “new routes for funding and financing highways and transit.” This effort included warnings from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that $13 to $18 billion will be needed each year to maintain the current funding levels...

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Tags: congress, highway trust fund, roads, TIGER Grants

The Best Thing About Next Week? It's Infrastructure Week

May 6, 2014 | By: Infrastructure Report Card

Indeed, May 12 to 16th is officially Infrastructure Week.  It’s a week built for talking about trains, planes, and automobiles and all the ways they get from point A to point B. If you’re in or around D.C., Infrastructure Week is already packed with events...

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Tags: #RebuildRenew, infrastructure, Infrastructure Week, leaders, social

This Week in Infrastructure: White House offers bill to GROW AMERICA

May 2, 2014 | By: Becky Moylan

Congress is back in session, but it was not a member of the legislative branch who introduced legislation to fund transportation projects. Instead, the U.S. DOT and President Obama followed up on a promise from earlier this year to propose a $302 billion transportation budget,...

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Tags: congress, gas tax, GROW Act, GROW AMERICA Act, highway trust fund, infrastructure, Tolls, White House

How Much Would You Owe If Everyone's Infrastructure Bill Came Due?

April 29, 2014 | By: Infrastructure Report Card

Bloomberg took the opportunity to calculate your infrastructure bill for you based on where you live. See what you would owe for roads, safe drinking water, and airport infrastructure if every one in every state had to pay their bill today....

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Tags: aviation, bill, infrastructure, rank, roads, water

April 29, 2014 | By: America's Infrastructure Report Card

Washington, D.C. —The following is a statement from Randall (Randy) S. Over, P.E., president of The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) on the GROW AMERICA Act: “We need bold leadership at all levels of government if we are going to solve America’s infrastructure deficit,...

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Tags: highway trust fund, MAP-21, President Obama, transportation

This Week in Infrastructure: If not now, when?

April 25, 2014 | By: Becky Moylan

“It is time to fix our roads and bridges,” House Public Works and Highways Committee Chairman Rep. David Campbell, D-Nashua, [New Hampshire,] said. “If not 4.2 cents, what amount? If not today, when?” With those words of encouragement and a vote, New Hampshire’s legislative branch...

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Tags: gas tax, highway trust fund, infrastructure, transportation