A bill seeking to have WisDOT compensate contractors for transportation project delays has support from both utilities and roadbuilders.

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Gov. Evers signed a more than $900,000 contract with Century Fence Co. to do pavement marking replacement work in northwest Wisconsin.

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Federal funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law led to an uptick in highway project lettings that resulted in more than 60 projects announced in Wisconsin. 

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Wisconsin stands to receive $45 million this year for bridge projects as part of money set aside for bridge construction in the $1 trillion federal infrastructure bill approved last fall.

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Wisconsin slipped to the middle of the pack in a national ranking of the cost-effectiveness and condition of the state's highway system by the Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank.

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Fighting sagging poll ratings, President Joe Biden set out Tuesday on a national tour to persuade everyday Americans of the benefits of his big, just-signed infrastructure plan. First stop: a snowy, rusty bridge in New Hampshire, a state that gave him no love in the presidential primaries last year.

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President Joe Biden signed his $1 trillion infrastructure deal into law Monday on the White House lawn, with a smattering of Republican lawmakers on hand for what could be one of the last shows of bipartisanship ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

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The $1 trillion infrastructure plan that President Joe Biden plans to sign into law has money for roads, bridges, ports, rail transit, safe water, the power grid, broadband internet and more.

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The massive COVID-19 relief bill passed by Congress on Monday promises to help Wisconsin's transportation fund cope revenue shortfalls brought on by the pandemic even as it provides tax relief to businesses that took out a Paycheck Protection loan earlier this year.

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As is true for so many aspects of modern life, the coronavirus pandemic hasn’t so much revealed weaknesses in the state’s transportation as made long-recognized faults even more apparent.

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