Lucy Perry – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Thu March 21, 2024
Proposed Budget Boosts IIJA Transportation Construction Programs
Citing its vision to protect and build on the progress made over the past three years, the Biden administration released its proposed budget for the 2025 fiscal year. With almost $79 billion earmarked for highway, safety and transit programs, the budget also adds $9.5 billion to support the resilience, safety and sustainability of the nation's transportation network via the bipartisan infrastructure law....
ADOT - Wed March 20, 2024
Arizona Seeks Input On Five-Year, $7.9B Transportation Plan
The Arizona Department of Transportation is targeting pavement improvements and expanding several key highways as major parts of its Tentative Five-Year Construction Program for 2025-2029. This proposed annual update to the ADOT's list of projects in design and construction is now available for public comment through late May....
Lucy Perry – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Thu March 07, 2024
Industry Calls FHWA's Arbitrary Emissions Performance Mandate an Overreach
The construction industry has declared its support of 22 states challenging the FHWA's greenhouse gas (GHG) performance rules, which went into effect this past December. The AGC and ARTBA believe the federal agency lacks the authority to impose performance measures and that FHWA has underestimated the administrative costs resulting from the mandate....
Brightline - Tue March 05, 2024
Brightline Announces Plans to Open a New Stuart, Fla., Station in Second Half of 2026
Brightline, the intercity high-speed rail line that connects Miami to Orlando, with stops at several other cities along Florida's Atlantic Coast, announced March 4 that it has selected the city of Stuart in Martin County as the site for its next passenger rail station....
Providence Journal - Thu February 29, 2024
Rhode Island Transit Officials to Decide Where to Build New Bus Hub Near Providence
Rhode Island's central bus hub has taken another small step toward moving from Kennedy Plaza to a vacant lot near Interstate 95. The panel that controls vacant land freed by the relocation of Interstate 195 voted Feb....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Wed February 28, 2024
$300M Chicago Project to Untangle Rail Infrastructure
A multi-faceted $300 million project aimed at untangling southside Chicago's vast railroad and roadway infrastructure is well under construction with Stage 1, a critical step in moving forward, completed, and Stage 2 of Phase 3 well under way....
Caltrans - Tue February 20, 2024
California Allocates Nearly $1.2 Billion to Improve Infrasturcture
The California Transportation Commission (CTC) recently allocated nearly $1.2 billion for investments for urban and rural projects throughout the state, continuing a historic push to improve the state's vital transportation infrastructure....
AASHTO - Wed February 14, 2024
Kentucky's New Six-Year Highway Plan Includes 1,300 Infrastructure Projects
Gov. Andy Beshear recently unveiled a 2024 Recommended Highway Plan for Kentucky that includes more than 1,300 transportation infrastructure projects funded via both state and federal dollars. The governor said his proposed highway plan is a "practical action guide" to prioritize road and bridge maintenance projects, as well as new construction over the next six years....
Oregon Department of Transportation - Wed February 07, 2024
Oregon Ranks Fourth in Transportation Funding
Oregon is ranked 4th in the nation for transportation policies and funding that improve equity, public health and climate change outcomes, according to a report published last month by the Natural Resources Defense Council....
Office of Senator Sherrod Brown - Tue January 30, 2024
Brown Announces Funding to Fix SR39 in East Liverpool, Ohio
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown announced a $29,712,043 investment in the city of East Liverpool, Ohio, in Columbiana County to complete reconstruction of State Route 39 from Mulberry Street east to the Pennsylvania state line....
