House passes INVEST in America Act
The U.S. House of Representatives passed Thursday the INVEST in America Act, the $715 billion surface transportation re-authorization and water infrastructure bill. The INVEST in America Act specif...
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USDOT awards more than $905M to 24 infrastructure projects
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) recently awarded $905.25 million in Infrastructure for Rebuilding America grants to 24 projects in 18 states. Rural projects received approximately 4...
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Officials tout Washington, DC transportation initiatives
Washington, DC officials are espousing the benefits of varied transportation and infrastructure initiatives slated to benefit residents, as well as the East Coast corridor and Union Station visitors. ...
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Reps. DeFazio, Pallone announce details of $715B Surface Transportation and Water Infrastructure bill
U.S. Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced Thursday new details of the $715 billion INVEST in America A...
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Virginia’s Commonwealth Transportation Board approves state department budgets
Virginia’s Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB), a 17-member board charged with approving funding allocations for the state’s transportation system, recently approved the Fiscal Year 2022 budge...
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President Biden announces support for bipartisan infrastructure deal
President Joe Biden announced he and a group of more than 20 Congressmembers had reached a deal on a new $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework is...
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Maryland Gov. Hogan announces environmental approval of Howard Street Tunnel project
Gov. Larry Hogan announced Wednesday that the planned Howard Street Tunnel expansion project in Baltimore can move forward now that it has received a Finding of No Significant Impact as part of its en...
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Sens. Durbin, Braun introduce legislation creating Rural Transportation Infrastructure Office
U.S. Sens Dick Durbin (D-IL), the Senate Majority Whip, and Mike Braun (R-IN) introduced legislation Monday designed to improve federal support for rural transportation and infrastructure by creating ...
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Amtrak, MDOT announce new approach for tunnel replacement program
Federal, state, and local leaders gathered Friday, on the 150th anniversary of the Baltimore and Potomac (B&P) tunnel’s groundbreaking, to unveil new plans for the B&P Tunnel Replacement Program. ...
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Senate committee advances transportation bill
The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation recently advanced legislation containing multiple provisions led by U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KA). Moran’s provisions in the Surfa...
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Gov. Evers announces Wisconsin DOT grant for Milton rail project
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation has awarded the city of Milton grant funding to extend a rail line to the city’s new chocolate factory. The Transportation Economic Assistance (TEA) gr...
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APTA releases new report on high-performance rail’s return on investment
As part of its 2021 APTA-UITP Rail Conference, the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) released a new report on assessing high-performance rail’s return on investment. The report, ...
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Transportation Secretary Buttigieg Announces $250M in American Rescue Plan funding allocations
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg announced $250 million in federal funding allocations Friday for transit projects. The funding is part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and w...
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House Committee on Transportation advances two bipartisan infrastructure bills
The U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure approved two major pieces of legislation to modernize America’s roads, bridges, highways, rail, transit, and wastewater systems. Com...
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Sens. Cantwell, Wicker introduce bipartisan surface reauthorization
U.S. Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and Roger Wicker (R-MS), ranking member of the committee, introduced legislation authorizing $7...
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Five Georgia projects included in INVEST Act
Five Georgia projects are included in the Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation (INVEST) in America Act, the five-year, $547 billion surface transportation reauthori...
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INVEST Act includes three Denver area projects
The INVEST in America Act, the federal surface transportation bill, includes three Denver area projects totaling nearly $20 million that will improve the safety and efficiency of the city’s transpor...
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Federal transportation bill would invest $95B in passenger, freight rail
Legislation recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives would invest $95 billion in passenger and freight rail. The five-year $547 billion INVEST in America Act would provide funding f...
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California railway delays electrified service until 2024
Caltrain, which provides commuter rail service from San Francisco to San Jose, recently announced it has delayed the launch of its electrified service until late 2024. The rail line was created in...
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Amtrak CEO opposes CSX-Pan Am Railways deal
Amtrak CEO Bill Flynn said Friday the company opposes CSX Transportation’s acquisition of New England regional Pan Am Railways because the deal, in its current form, ‘represents a significant thre...
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