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.
July 15, 2015 - Both the discretionary side of surface transportation spending (the annual appropriations bills funding the Department of...
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July 15, 2015 - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has taken the first procedural steps towards starting debate on...
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April 22, 2015 - A bipartisan group of House legislators last week made an interesting proposal to deal with the...
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April 16, 2015 - ETW analysis of CBO data shows that even if Congress shut down new Highway Trust Fund...
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April 16, 2016 - Negotiations on the duration of the next surface transportation extension law have begun on Capitol Hill,...
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April 2, 2015 - The Obama Administration this week submitted the legislative text of a slightly revised version of the...
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SECTION-BY-SECTION SUMMARY OF S. 808, SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2015 The bill redesignates sections 701 through 706 of...
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Refreshing the Status Quo: Federal Highway Programs and Funding Distribution
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,...