New USDOT Report on Highway, Transit Conditions Reveals America’s $926 Billion Infrastructure Investment Need
WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced that a new report on the state of America's transportation infrastructure, “2015 Status of the Nation's Highways, Bridges and Transit: Conditions and Performance,” confirms that more investment is needed not only to maintain the nation's highway and transit systems but to overcome a nearly trillion-dollar investment backlog. “We have an infrastructure system that is fundamental to the nation’s economic health, and it need...
DelDOT/DTC Announce Innovative Approach to Construct New Transit Center
DelDOT and Delaware Transit Corporation (DTC) know the critical need for a transit center in the City of Wilmington. As the 11th busiest Amtrak Station, Wilmington's Biden Station serves as the focal point of public transportation in Wilmington. Improving the customer experience, allowing better connections to buses and trains, as well as addressing the parking shortage around the train station are many of the concerns we have heard from both the traveling public and the business community. As m...
New USDOT Report on Highway, Transit Conditions Reveals America’s $926 Billion Infrastructure Investment Need
WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced that a new report on the state of America's transportation infrastructure, “2015 Status of the Nation's Highways, Bridges and Transit: Conditions and Performance,” confirms that more investment is needed not only to maintain the nation's highway and transit systems but to overcome a nearly trillion-dollar investment backlog. “We have an infrastructure system that is fundamental to the nation’s economic health, and it need...
USDOT Issues Report on Economic Growth Due to Transportation Investments During Recovery Act
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation released a new report introduced by Vice President Joe Biden, Shovel Worthy: What the Recovery Act Taught Us About Investing in Our Nation’s Infrastructure, to review the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) in advancing economic recovery and job creation after the worst recession since the Great Depression. “Investment in America’s transportation network during the economic crisis was a critical part of...
New FHWA Rules Aim to Improve Performance of Nation’s Highway System
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today released two final rules outlining new performance measures to improve the condition of the nation’s roads and bridges and assess travel reliability, congestion and emissions at a national level. The rules call for states to account for air quality improvement by establishing performance targets, and greater transparency and accountability in setting and achieving performance targets for several key...
Gold Fork River Bridge Replacement South of Donnelly Earns Engineering Excellence Recognition
BOISE - Replacement of the 69-year-old Gold Fork River Bridge south of Donnelly, completed in late October, recently won a first-place award in the Structural Systems category from the ACEC (American Council of Engineering Companies) of Idaho in their Engineering Excellence Awards. The project was designed and built in just six months, on time and under budget. To view a photo of the new bridge, click here. Concrete Placing Company and design firm Horrocks Engineers chose to build a tem...
Secretary Foxx Releases Beyond Traffic 2045 Final Report on Future of Transportation
WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today released the final Beyond Traffic 2045 report highlighting transportation challenges the United States will face over the next three decades. The report finds that the U.S. transportation system, and the current planning and funding mechanisms, will not meet the demands presented by trends including population growth, climate change, and new technologies like driverless cars. “Beyond Traffic started a long overdue conversation abou...
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces $1.07 Billion in Federal Funding to Improve Rail Transit Service in Chicago
CHICAGO – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced approximately $1.07 billion in federal grant funds to the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) for the first phase of the Red and Purple Modernization Project. The project will reconstruct a section of the rail lines on the north side of Chicago in order to expand capacity on one of the busiest corridors of the CTA system. "For the past eight years, the Obama Administration has been committ...
BTS Releases U.S. Transportation Wall Map
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has released a newly updated double-sided wall map, Transportation Geography of the United States. The front of this map features a reference map of select U.S. transportation infrastructure and connections, including the National Highway System (NHS), class I railroads, airports with at least 750,000 enplanements, major ports with a commodity tonnage total of 10 million or more, and border crossings on the NHS. On the back, multiple dimensions of tr...
USDOT Signs $1.99B Accord, Closes First of Four New TIFIA Loans for Seattle Light Rail
The U.S. Department of Transportation and Seattle's Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority – known as Sound Transit – signed a $1.99 billion master credit agreement to cover four light rail projects, and the USDOT closed an initial long-term TIFIA loan of $615.3 million under the accord. The USDOT announcement said its Build America Bureau financing unit developed the "first-of-its-kind arrangement" under which Sound Transit "will be able to expedite multiple loan requests under a si...
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