ConsumerAffairs Rates States With Worst Roads

This holiday season, drivers traveling through Rhode Island, Hawaii, Wisconsin, California, Massachusetts, South Dakota, New Jersey, Louisiana, Michigan and New York are in for the bumpiest rides. Weather conditions and low infrastructure budgets have led to potholed and hazardous roads in these states, according to a new ConsumerAffairs study.

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Transportation Trends: 2022 and Beyond

Dec. 14. 2021 – When does a technology really grow? When it is attached to a need. When it comes to the movement of freight, one megatrend driving the need for better technology is the driver shortage, according to the article “Transportation Trends For 2022 And Beyond: Can Autonomy Safely Address The Driver Shortage?”, which appears in Forbes magazine. What…

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IIJA: State by State

Nov. 19, 2021 – The U.S. Department of Transportation released state-by-state fact sheets that highlight how the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) will deliver for communities across the country by repairing roads and bridges, improving transportation options, building a national network of chargers to accelerate the adoption of EVs, upgrading our nation’s airports and ports, and much more. 

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Infrastructure Bill Aligns With Key AASHTO Principles

An 81-page analysis of the $1.2 trillion “Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act” (IIJA) passed by the Senate on August 10 and now winding its way through the House of Representatives finds it aligns with key principles espoused by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO).

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A Rescue for the Highway Trust Fund

August 3, 2021 – The Highway Trust Fund was just thrown a lifeline. A $118 billion bailout of the Highway Trust Fund from the Treasury’s general fund was slipped into the ever-evolving infrastructure bill text at the last minute. I could have predicted there would be something in the bill at some point, given lawmakers’ inability to agree on user-fee…

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Money on Top of Money

June 25, 2021 – We are starting to talk about a lot of money. The infrastructure agreement reached by The White House and a bipartisan group of senators includes $312 billion dedicated to transportation, including $109 billion for roads and bridges, a proposal that would represent a significant boost in federal spending for the nation’s transportation infrastructure. That would be…

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New TRIP Report Details National Infrastructure Crisis

As the U.S. Interstate Highway System reaches 65 years old, it is congested, carries significant levels of travel – particularly by large trucks – and lacks adequate funding to make needed repairs and improvements. America’s most critical transportation link will need to be rebuilt and expanded to meet the nation’s growing transportation needs, according to a report released by TRIP, a…

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TRIP: Oklahoma Still Needs Infrastructure Investment

While the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) has been able to make significant improvements to state-maintained roads and bridges, additional progress may be stalled due to a lack of reliable funding. Increased investment in transportation improvements at the local, state and federal levels could improve road and bridge conditions, boost safety, ease congestion and improve reliability, and support short- and…

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House Committee Moves Transportation Legislation

The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure approved two major pieces of infrastructure legislation on a bipartisan basis during a 19-hour markup, both of which make transformational investments to modernize America’s roads, bridges, highways, rail, transit and wastewater systems.  The policy changes advanced in committee mark a significant departure from status quo infrastructure legislation of the past in order to…

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