Highways and Streets

Issues & Modes / Highways and Streets

There are over 4 million miles of roads in the United States moving cars, trucks, transit, and non-motorized vehicles across a seamless, integrated network. About three-quarters of the roads are owned by localities but the vast majority of travel occurs on major state roads and the federally-designated Interstate System. Today, this complex system is under strain as demands for upgrades and repair, safety improvements, and modernization mount.

House T&I Approves 16 Surface and Maritime Transportation Bills

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee this week approved sixteen bills making discrete policy changes to trucking law,...

House T&I Committee Discusses Overcoming Supply Chain Challenges

On Wednesday, May 10, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure met to discuss overcoming supply chain challenges faced...

Senate Votes to Block EPA Heavy Truck Rule

Two Democratic Senators – one angry, one absent – allowed Senate Republicans to pass a resolution this week overturning the...

DOT Announces $296 Million in Bridge Grants

Most of Joe Biden's original proposal for an "American Jobs Plan" got downsized, or jettisoned outright, on the way to becoming the...

DOT Opens Applications for $625M in EV Charging Grants

The Biden Administration announced that the first $625 million of an eventual $2+ billion provided by the Infrastructure Investment and...

ETW Exclusive: How Hundreds of Millions in Highway Funding Was Almost Lost Last Summer

Every year, the total amount of funding that can be legally obligated for expenditure by the federal-aid highway program is limited by...

Biden Nominates Ann Carlson to Head NHTSA

President Biden announced on February 13 that he will nominate Ann Carlson, the Deputy Administrator of the National Highway Traffic...

FHWA Reveals Possible $3.5 Billion Highway Funding Overstatement

The Federal Highway Administration told Congress this week that $3.5 billion in federal-aid highway contract authority balances held by...

Initial HTF Formula Funding Given to States for FY23 Is $1.1 Billion Less than FY22

The Federal Highway Administration this week notified state DOTs that they would be able to obligate and spend a total of $45.34...

Why an I-81 ‘Skyway’ Would be Costly and Unworkable: ‘Who wants to live under a 70-foot bridge?’

Eno's Robert Puentes is asked about a recent highway project in Syracuse and what it may mean for the community.

DOT Gives $2.1 Billion for Four Large Bridge Projects

The Biden Administration announced this week that four highway bridge projects will split nearly $2.1 billion in federal funding under...

Biden Administration Gives $1.6 Billion for Bridge Project Sought by McConnell, Portman

President Biden will visit Covington, Kentucky tomorrow to make a joint appearance with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)...

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