Published: November 15, 2011
Tags: bridge, Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, Obama, roads, Transportation
By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – House and Senate negotiators have agreed on a bundle of spending measures for the ongoing budget year, blending cuts to NASA and community development programs while averting cuts to nutrition programs. The approximately $182 billion measure announced late Monday would provide money for day-to-day operations at the [...]
Published: September 2, 2011
Tags: FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, highways, Obama, shutdown, Transportation
By Joan Lowy Associated Press Washington — Bills necessary to avoid shutdowns of federal transportation and aviation programs are high on Congress’ to-do list when it returns to work next week. President Barack Obama says as many as 1 million jobs are at risk without action. Both the White House and House Republicans signaled last [...]
Published: July 18, 2011
Tags: Bob Donovan, Brian Manthey, Milwaukee, Nik Kovac, Rail, referendum, streetcar, tax-incremental financing, TIF, Tom Barrett, Transportation, W. Martin Morics, We Energies
By James Briggs A Milwaukee alderman on Monday called for a referendum to let voters advise Common Council members on whether the city should build a $64.6 million streetcar line. Calling financial projections for the project “rosy,” Alderman Bob Donovan said he has yet to hear from a single resident in his district who supports [...]
Published: April 6, 2011
Tags: Amtrak, Gov. Scott Walker, Ray LaHood, Transportation, U.S. Department of Transportation, USDOT
Washington — Twenty-four states, the District of Columbia and Amtrak are vying for $2.4 billion in federal aid that became available when Florida’s governor canceled a high-speed rail project in his state, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said.
Published: October 11, 2010
Tags: infrastructure, Obama, transit, Transportation
Washington (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday lobbied for Republican support from Capitol Hill for a burst of spending on transportation projects, calling his proposal a jobs creator for the middle class and an overdue investment in the country’s foundation. “There’s no reason why we can’t do this,” Obama said in a brief Rose [...]
Published: July 14, 2010
Tags: commuter rail, Dane County, high-speed rail, Rail, referendum, Regional Transit Authority, RTA, transit plan, Transportation, vote
Comments: 1
By Tony Anderson Special to The Daily Reporter A Dane County supervisor opposed to the cost of commuter rail wants to put the project to a countywide vote this fall. “We’re trying to put their feet to the fire and say, ‘Let’s have this referendum,’” said first-term Supervisor Bill Clausius, referring to members of the [...]
Published: April 2, 2010
Tags: bridges, high-speed rail, Rail, roads, stimulus, Transportation, Washington
Comments: 14
To the editor: Let’s ask ourselves: How did Wisconsin get in this mess? The current administration in Washington put taxpayer money out for job stimulus. The mistake in Washington was to specify and target specific types of projects. The types of projects were determined by anti-fossil fuel, anti-car social thinking, not what is best for our [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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