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Highway Trust Fund 101: What You Need to Know

April 24, 2014 | By: America's Infrastructure Report Card

The Highway Trust Fund is set to become insolvent this summer, creating exponential negative consequences for our economy. What? When? Why? Find out how it can be fixed and what you can do to help. What is the Highway Trust Fund? The Highway Trust Fund...

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

This Week in Infrastructure: Highway Trust Fund Gets Media Attention

April 18, 2014 | By: Becky Moylan

On a typical day, a Google news search for the Highway Trust Fund over the past 24 hours results in a page or two of results. But this week Wednesday, the search query garnered nine pages of hits, and the option to “explore in depth”...

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Tags: congress, highway trust fund, infrastructure, P3

Statement from The American Society of Civil Engineers Urging Immediate Congressional Action to Avert Highway Trust Fund Insolvency

April 16, 2014 | By: America's Infrastructure Report Card

Reston, Va. – The following is a statement from Randall (Randy) S. Over, P.E., F.ASCE, president of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) regarding the U.S. Department of Transportation’s report issued yesterday on the future of the Highway Trust Fund: “The report issued this...

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Tags: DOT, highway trust fund

This Week in Infrastructure: Reasons to Keep Advocating for Investment

April 11, 2014 | By: Becky Moylan

The Opinion Pages of The New York Times presented a series of reasons “We Should Be in a Rage” and among them were—you guessed it—because of the state of our nation’s infrastructure. These grievances, along with suggestions and productive dialogue to change it, appeared in...

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Tags: congress, highway trust fund, infrastructure, MAP-21, P3

Congress Looks to Learn Lessons from Canada’s P3 Experience

April 10, 2014 | By: Infrastructure Report Card

This week the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee looked to our northern neighbor Canada for advice on the federal role for public-private partnerships (P3) holding a panel hearing on the International Experience with Public-Private Partnerships, chaired by U.S. Rep. John Duncan (R-TN). Experts from the...

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Tags: Canada, congress, Delaney, hearing, House, infrastructure, P3, public-private partnership

This Week in Infrastructure: Continued Cause to Fix the Trust Fund

April 4, 2014 | By: Becky Moylan

This pothole season is one of the worst in recent memory, thanks to the particularly harsh winter. The freezing, thawing, plowing and salting certainly did not help the D grade roads received in the 2013 Report Card. In the hard-hit Midwestern states, the hope of...

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Tags: highway trust fund, Mass Transit, Potholes