Issues & Modes / Highways and Streets
USDOT Solicits Applications for $906M in FY20 INFRA Grants by Feb. 25
Jan 17, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe U.S. Department of Transportation announced this week that the available amount of competitive INFRA grant funding for fiscal year...
House to Consider $1.25 Billion in FHWA Emergency Relief Appropriations Week of Jan. 27
Jan 16, 2020 | Jeff DavisHouse Democratic leaders today announced that the House will consider a $3.35 billion emergency supplemental appropriations bill the...
Guest Op-Ed: Less Spectrum Means Less Safety
Jan 16, 2020 | Shailen BhattWe rarely hear about the 37,000 people who die every year on our roads. The statistics are staggering, which is a big part of the...
USMCA Trade Bill Addresses Trucking Competition
Dec 19, 2019 | Jeff DavisThis week, the House of Representatives passed the bill implementing the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement (USMCA), which repeals...
DOT Makes $1B in New TIFIA Loans
Dec 19, 2019 | Jeff DavisIn the last seven days, the U.S. Department of Transportation has announced over $1 billion in new federal direct loans under the TIFIA...
DOT Releases Updated Highway-Transit-Freight Conditions and Performance Report
Dec 11, 2019 | Jeff DavisA long-awaited new report from the U.S. Department of Transportation was quietly released last week (two years late) and indicates that...
Partial Highway Statistics for 2018 Released
Dec 06, 2019 | Jeff DavisThe Federal Highway Administration has begun publishing the voluminous tables that will eventually comprise Highway Statistics 2018 as...
Trump Signs Law Funding Government Through Dec. 20, Canceling $7.6 Billion Highway Rescission
Nov 22, 2019 | Jeff DavisPresident Trump has signed into law a bill (H.R. 3055) that will provide funding for federal agencies from today through midnight on...
One-Month CR With Highway Rescission Fix Goes to President’s Desk
Nov 21, 2019 | Jeff DavisThe U.S. Senate has passed a one-month stopgap appropriations measure which also contains a repeal of the $7.6 billion cut in highway...
2nd FY20 CR Introduced in House Repeals $7.6B Highway Rescission
Nov 18, 2019 | Jeff DavisEarlier this afternoon, House Democratic leaders released the text of a second fiscal year 2020 stopgap appropriations measure, this...
FHWA Releases State-by-State Totals for July 2020 Highway Funding Cut
Nov 04, 2019 | Jeff DavisThis morning, the Federal Highway Administration sent the state DOTs their estimated allocations of the $7.6 billion cut in highway...
Senate Debates FY20 DOT Appropriations: Highway Rescission Fix Offered
Oct 25, 2019 | Jeff DavisThis week, the U.S. Senate took up a $209 billion package of four appropriations bills for fiscal year 2020, including the...
This year, the federal government gave $45.6 billion in highway “formula” funding to the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The state-by-state distribution of this money was based almost entirely on how the states fared on a variety of real-world metrics back in calendar year 2007,...