Concern over the Economic Cost of Tariffs Continues to Rise
editor@aashto.org July 9, 2018 0 COMMENTSThe economic impact of Trump administration tariffs imposed on a number of goods, but especially steel and aluminum, continues to generate growing concern – especially regarding the cost of infrastructure projects. The American Institute for International Steel, for example, noted that U.S. steel-using manufacturers are encountering product price increases of 50 percent or more and […]
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FHWA and AASHTO Team Up to Provide Online Transportation Education
editor@aashto.org July 9, 2018 0 COMMENTSEarlier this month, the Federal Highway Administration and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials finalized an agreement for a project that provides local and tribal transportation professionals, through funding from FHWA, with access to 120 courses available AASHTO Transportation Curriculum Coordination Council or “TC3” library. According to FHWA, access to the training […]
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AASHTO Launches Improved Transportation Industry Jobs Site
editor@aashto.org July 9, 2018 0 COMMENTSThe American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials is launching a completely revamped version of its 13 year-old transportation jobs web portal on July 1; a portal available to AASHTO members as well as other transportation-related organizations and companies. Since 2005, AASHTO has offered its members and job seekers the opportunity to advertise and […]
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Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao joined K. Jane Williams – acting administrator for the Federal Transit Administration – Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker plus other state local officials at a June 25 ceremony to officially release $225 million in federal grant money for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line Extension or “GLX” light rail project. The […]
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Iowa DOT Lays Out Five Year, $3.4B Highway Funding Plan
AASHTO Program Director of Media Relations and TV Production May 15, 2018 0 COMMENTSThe Iowa Department of Transportation officially presented a “first draft” of a proposed five-year funding plan back on May 8 that aims for “multimodal transportation system” investments including aviation, public transit, railroads, trails, and highways. Some $3.4 billion of that plan is earmarked just for highway needs, the agency said. The Fiscal Year 2019-2023 Iowa […]
READ MOREA Host of States Face Project Funding Challenges
AASHTO Program Director of Media Relations and TV Production January 2, 2015 0 COMMENTSAcross the nation, a number of states are suddenly grappling with a tougher funding outlook for transportation infrastructure. In Alaska, newly installed Gov. Bill Walker ordered state agencies to halt all discretionary spending on some big-ticket transportation and other infrastructure projects, as he tries to close a yawning budget gap amid a collapse in oil prices that provide […]
READ MOREArkansas Trims 2015 Bids Over Federal Delays
AASHTO Program Director of Media Relations and TV Production December 29, 2014 0 COMMENTS“Same song, second verse,” said Scott Bennett, director of the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department, as he announced cuts in the agency’s 2015 list of infrastructure project bids due to another round of uncertainty about federal funding. Bennett said Arkansas had to delay 15 highway projects in 2014 that were worth $70 million, because the state could not count […]
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