Former Transportation Secretary and Rep. Ray LaHood (R-Ill.) and former Gov. Ed Rendell (D-Pa.), wrote a letter staking out the position of the organization Building America’s Future with regard to future transportation funding. The letter was sent to President-elect Donald Trump.
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Vulcan Materials Approved for Major Aggregates Reserve
Vulcan Materials Co. announced that the Kern County, Calif., board of supervisors voted by unanimous consent to approve its San Emidio Quarry expansion.
Read MorePoll: Strong Bipartisan Support for Water Infrastructure Bill
In the final weeks of the lame-duck session, a national poll by the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) found that voters strongly support federal funding for water pipelines and waterways as well as for resources that prevent drinking water contamination crises, like those that occurred in Flint, Mich.
Read MoreARTBA Forecast: Modest Growth in Transportation Construction
Total transportation construction and related market activity is expected to grow 1.3 percent in 2017, driven largely by increases in highway and bridge private construction activity supporting residential and commercial developments, according to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) chief economist, Dr. Alison Premo Black.
Read MoreTrump Taps Chao for Transportation Secretary
President-elect Donald Trump nominated former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao to head the Transportation Department. Chao is a former U.S. deputy transportation secretary who currently sits on the board of Vulcan Materials Co. Chao, the wife of Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, served as labor secretary under President George W. Bush and was the first Asian-American woman to hold a…
Read MoreMDU Resources Provides Five-Year Capital Plan Forecast
MDU Resources Group Inc. announced its capital expenditure forecast for 2017 through 2021.
Read MorePublic-Sector Construction Needs Investment; Qualified Workers
Only 23 states and the District of Columbia added construction jobs between September and October while construction employment increased in 35 states between October 2015 and October 2016, according to analysis of Labor Department data released by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC). Association officials said declining public-sector investments in infrastructure and other public projects were undermining construction employment…
Read MoreNew Senate Leadership Looks Favorable to Aggregates Industry
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee – which has jurisdiction over infrastructure spending and environmental regulations – will have a new chairman and ranking democrat in the new Congress. The committee will be led by the new Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), and ranking Democrat Tom Carper (D-Del.)
Read MoreConstruction Materials Stocks Booming
Shares of construction-materials companies powered higher in the days after the presidential election, with some climbing the ladder to all-time highs, amid expectations that a Donald Trump presidency will line the pockets of road and bridge fixers and the potential builders of his border wall.
Read MoreRecord Number of State and Local Ballot Measures Approved
Preliminary November 8 election results show voters in 22 states approved ballot measures that will provide $201 billion in funding extensions and new revenue for state and local transportation projects.
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