The small South Carolina town of Seneca recently became the first municipality in the United States to make a complete switch to a fully electric municipal bus fleet. That’s big news! In fact, Seneca claims to be the first city in the entire world to have a bus fleet consisting solely of electric vehicles. Seneca […]
Many Texas communities and public officials participated in a nationwide Stand Up 4 Transportation Rally recently. The objective was to get the attention of Congress. A May 31 deadline is looming and Congress must address the current stop-gap surface transportation bill or it will become insolvent. That would be a disaster because the Highway Trust […]
Much has been written about the critical state of the country’s roads and bridges. It’s heartening to finally hear some positive news. In March, the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) announced two major Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loans for more than $403 million. The money will be used to leverage other funding […]
Here’s an alarming statistic…in the United States, cars, trucks and school buses cross the nation’s 61,064 structurally compromised bridges 215 million times every day. How comforting is that? Those statistics are from the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). And, in the organization’s most recent report on deficient bridges in the United States, we […]
High-definition color television with streaming video anytime we feel like watching? Cordless phones that follow commands? Robots that perform surgery? Global networks linking billions of electronic devices throughout the world? What’s next? Driverless cars – of course! Just last week, the United Kingdom approved the testing on public roads of driverless, or autonomous, cars. And […]
The clock is ticking and time is again running out!! The federal Highway Trust Fund will become insolvent soon if Congress does not act quickly. Some are actually hopeful that something more than just continuing short-term, stop-gap measures to temporarily restore funding may actually happen this year. A few innovative solutions are being discussed 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 […]