Rural areas of the United States hit the jackpot this week when nearly 40 transportation projects in 34 states were announced as recipients of funding from the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant program. The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) announced $500 million in TIGER funding has been awarded for 2015, 43 percent of […]
It’s starting to sound like a broken record, but, once again, Congress is facing the deadline for piecing together a solution for continued funding of the federal Highway Trust Fund. The current stop-gap measure passed in July is set to expire on Oct. 29. And, across the country, government entities are piecing together solutions to […]
Texans may be somewhat calmed by the knowledge that transportation infrastructure problems are nationwide. No state is exempt. Citizens won’t, however, be happy to know that transportation-related costs are destined to increase in Texas and in every other state in the near future. The nation’s transportation infrastructure needs have become too critical to ignore any […]