Published: March 5, 2010
Tags: filibuster, gas tax, Jim Bunning, surface transportation, Transportation
To the editor:
The filibuster is over but the lesson lives on.
Incredible as it seems, the nation’s most important source of surface transportation funding lapsed this month for the first time in its history due to a bizarre argument in which, somehow, both sides were simultaneously right and dead wrong.
On one side of the argument, a [...]
Published: February 23, 2010
Tags: Associated General Contractors of America, Association of Equipment Manufacturers, Congress, Craig Thompson, Deery, federal government, highway, jobs bill, Traas, Transportation, Wisconsin Transportation Builders Association, Yaksich
Comments: 1
By Sean Ryan
The federal government will hemorrhage $11.1 billion in 2010 highway money if Congress doesn’t pass a bill by Sunday to temporarily plug the leak.
Wisconsin has $200.7 million at stake in the Congressional debate over jobs bills that would prevent the $11.1 billion reduction in the nationwide highway program.
The federal transportation spending law expired [...]
Published: February 4, 2010
Tags: Devine, highway, Peterson, Rail, Sales Automations Support Inc., sales tax, Schuldt, southeast Wisconsin, Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, thompson, toll, transit, Transportation, Transportation Development Association of Wisconsin, Yunker
By Sean Ryan
A roomful of people who spoke in harmony about the need for more transportation money broke into discord while sharing ideas about how to get it.
Southeast Wisconsin business owners, transportation planners, elected officials and citizen activists gathered Thursday to discuss how the region can rise to the multibillion-dollar challenge of rebuilding highways and [...]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State legislators will get a chance this week to ask questions about last month’s anemic deer hunt.
The Assembly Fish and Wildlife Committee and the Senate Transportation, Tourism, Forestry and Natural Resources Committee plan to hold a public hearing Thursday morning at the state Capitol on the deer hunt.
Department of Natural Resources [...]
OSHA reports
• Rojas Plastering, Waukesha, reached an informal settlement with OSHA on Sept. 1 to reduce a $2,000 scaffolding citation to $1,000, a $2,000 aerial-lifts citation to $1,000 and an $800 fall-protection-training citation to $400. The company was issued the citations Aug. 14 during a drywall and insulation job at 2315 N. 124th St., Brookfield.
• [...]
Published: September 25, 2009
Tags: contractors, elected, federal stimulus, road construction, Transportation
By David Winzelberg
Dolan Media
When Long Island was shortchanged by a lack of federal stimulus dollars for transportation projects, local roadway contractors and elected officials complained bitterly. And that’s no surprise, since cash from projects paid for with public money keeps both groups afloat.
There’s a lot of money in roads. They’re expensive to build, costly [...]
Published: August 26, 2009
Tags: Assembly Committee on Transportation, bill, engineers, Local Roads Improvement Program, Transportation, Wisconsin Department of Transportation
Paul Snyder
paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com
A state lawmaker is challenging a Wisconsin Department of Transportation rule that forces municipalities to hire outside engineers for local projects eligible for state money.
“From my perspective, if a city is already employing an engineer, it makes more sense to use those services that are already being paid for,” said state Rep. Jeff Smith, [...]
Published: August 25, 2009
Tags: budget, shortfall, Transportation, Transportation Development Association of Wisconsin Inc., Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Wisconsin Joint Committee on Finance, WisDOT
Paul Snyder
paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com
Wisconsin’s transportation budget faces the latest in a long line of blows — a $49.1 million budget shortfall for 2009.
The state’s Joint Committee on Finance on Thursday will discuss a Wisconsin Department of Transportation plan to help cope with the shortfall: lapsing $33.3 million in major highway development and state highway rehabilitation money for [...]
Published: July 30, 2009
Tags: Army Corps of Engineers, Congress, economic stimulus, energy spending bill, Essential Air Service, Highway Trust Fund, mass transit, Nevada, nuclear waste, power plants, Transportation, Washington Metro, Yucca Mountain
Adrian Sainz
AP Real Estate Writer
Miami — They’re lurking, holding bags of cash and eyeing distressed condo markets.
Big-time cash investors are snapping up South Florida condo units in bulk. There have been at least seven purchases of 10 or more condos this year, including four since June, according to county records. Investors are re-selling the units [...]
Published: July 30, 2009
Tags: Army Corps of Engineers, Congress, economic stimulus, energy spending bill, Essential Air Service, Highway Trust Fund, mass transit, Nevada, nuclear waste, power plants, Transportation, Washington Metro, Yucca Mountain
Andrew Taylor
AP Writer
Washington — The U.S. Senate passed a $34.3 billion energy spending bill that backs up President Barack Obama’s promise to close the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste facility in Nevada.
The bill also covers hundreds of Army Corps of Engineers water projects.
The Yucca Mountain project 90 miles from Las Vegas was designed to hold 77,000 [...]
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