Ohio’s transportation system faces challenges in the form of deteriorated roads and bridges, high rates of rural traffic fatalities, increasingly crowded roads, and insufficient funding to proceed with projects needed to support economic development. Increased investment in transportation improvements at the local, state and federal levels could improve road and bridge conditions, boost safety, increase roadway efficiency and support long-term…
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Guest Editorial: Congress Falls Short on ’16 Transportation Budget Resolution
Just about any driver who has hit a pothole or sat in bumper-to-bumper traffic knows that our nation’s roads, bridges and highways are in bad shape. The American Society of Civil Engineers gives our nation’s roads a D+ grade. There are 10,000 bridges in the U.S. that are so old that they qualify for Medicare and, yet, are still bearing…
Read MoreARTBA’s Ruane Tells Congress to Raise Gas Tax
Restoring purchasing power for the federal surface-transportation investment program is a worthy pro-growth national goal, said American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) President and CEO Pete Ruane in a letter to House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and the committee’s Ranking Democrat Sander Levin (Mich.).
Read MoreProducer Testifies Before Congress on Transportation Reauthorization
Bill Schmitz with Gernatt Asphalt Products Inc. in Collins, N.Y., testified June 3 on behalf of the National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA) before the House Small Business Committee at their hearing,“The Road Ahead: Small Businesses and the Need for a Long-Term Surface Transportation Reauthorization.” The hearing emphasized the importance of action on a long-term and stably funded highway…
Read MoreCongress Passes Two-Month Highway Extension
Congress has voted to extend authorizations for federal highway and transit programs through July 31. Both the House and Senate passed the measure. The new stopgap is the 33rd extension in six years. President Obama is expected to sign the bill before the May 31 deadline.
Read MoreGuest Editorial: Congress Falls Short on ’16 Transportation Budget Resolution
Just about any driver who has hit a pothole or sat in bumper-to-bumper traffic knows that our nation’s roads, bridges and highways are in bad shape. The American Society of Civil Engineers gives our nation’s roads a D+ grade. There are 10,000 bridges in the U.S. that are so old that they qualify for Medicare and, yet, are still bearing…
Read MoreJohnson Hammers Congress on Possible Transportation Cuts
National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA) President and CEO Michael W. Johnson urged Congress to rethink a proposed 22 percent cut to federal transportation projects contained in a recently passed federal spending blueprint. While Johnson acknowledged that the budget resolution passed May 5 is, fortunately, only a non-binding outline for federal spending, he pointed out that the proposed cuts…
Read MoreCalling Out Congress on Transportation
May 10, 2015 – Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx directed a broadside at Congress last week. “We ought to be embarrassed as a country” about the state of the nation’s infrastructure, he said, as lawmakers scramble to beat a May 31 deadline for extending federal transportation funds. Lawmakers have talked about passing a $10 billion patch to extend transportation funding until the…
Read MoreCongress Fails Nation; Proposes Transportation Cuts
For the first time in six years, the House and Senate have come together to pass a joint budget resolution. Their achievement is overshadowed by a proposed 22 percent reduction in surface transportation funding based upon current revenue projections for the Highway Trust Fund.
Read MoreNSSGA Talks Regulatory Burden with Congress
The National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA) shared comments with the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Reform in response to a request from Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), ranking committee Democrat Tom Carper (D-Del.), and Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs & Federal Management Subcommittee Chairman James Lankford (R-Okla.), and ranking subcommittee Democrat Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), for a review that…
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