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US Railroad Head: Hopeful For January $8 Billion Stimulus Spending (NASDAQ)

EVANSTON, Ill. -(Dow Jones)- The Federal Railroad Administration will award $8 billion in stimulus money to develop high-speed-passenger-rail service to various state applicants this winter, “hopefully in January,” Joseph Szabo, administrator of the U.S. railroad oversight agency said following a presentation Monday.

Speaking at a Northwestern University symposium […]

Admin/Auto2009-11-04T15:03:05+00:00November 4th, 2009|

18 CONTRACTS TOTALING MORE THAN $56.6 MILLION AWARDED FOR HIGHWAY PROJECTS ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA

18 CONTRACTS TOTALING MORE THAN $56.6 MILLION AWARDED FOR HIGHWAY PROJECTS ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA: Includes 11 funded through American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Governor’s Press Release)

RALEIGH — Gov. Bev Perdue announced today that 18 contracts totaling $56.6 million have been awarded for highway and bridge projects across North Carolina, including 11 projects funded through the […]

Admin/Auto2009-11-03T12:20:00+00:00November 3rd, 2009|

DOT stimulus funds going further than expected (WRAL.com)

The North Carolina Department of Transportation is anticipating another $100 million in federal stimulus funding for highway and bridge projects after project bids have come in less than anticipated.

“The general overall savings is around an average of 20 percent, so far, on projects,” Victor Barbour, the DOT’s administrator […]

Admin/Auto2009-10-22T07:58:50+00:00October 22nd, 2009|

LaHood Tells APTA Transit Will Get Bigger Piece of the Funding Pie (AASHTO Journal)

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told the American Public Transportation Association this week that transit must provide an even greater share of American mobility in the future as Americans cut back on the number of miles they drive in personal vehicles.”Mobility not […]

Admin/Auto2017-05-24T08:56:36+00:00October 13th, 2009|

LaHood Cites “Tremendous Need for Infrastructure Support” (AASHTO Journal)

Noting that a $1.5 billion discretionary grant program created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act drew 1,380 applications totaling nearly $57 billion in requests, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood testified Thursday that the response demonstrates “a tremendous need” for infrastructure investment.LaHood appeared at an oversight hearing […]

Admin/Auto2017-05-24T08:56:36+00:00October 6th, 2009|

N.C. applies for $5B from feds for high-speed rail (AP)

North Carolina has applied to the federal government for more than $5 billion to improve rail service between Charlotte and Washington.

Gov. Beverly Perdue announced Friday state officials had applied for the second round of federal stimulus funds for four high-speed rail projects. The recovery law had […]

Admin/Auto2009-10-06T09:02:57+00:00October 6th, 2009|

17 Contracts Totaling More Than $65 Million Awarded for Highway, Ferry Projects Across North Carolina (Press Release)

17 Contracts Totaling More Than $65 Million Awarded for Highway, Ferry Projects Across North Carolina

RALEIGH — Gov. Bev Perdue today announced that 17 contracts totaling $65.2 million have been awarded for highway, bridge and ferry projects across North Carolina, including eight projects funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The N.C. Department of Transportation […]

Admin/Auto2009-10-01T15:26:40+00:00October 1st, 2009|

SENATE LEADERS EXPLORE POSSIBLE 3-MONTH SURFACE EXTENSION (TRANSPORTATION WEEKLY)

The chairman and ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee are exploring the possibility of dropping their insistence on the eighteen-month extension of federal surface transportation programs requested by the White House and agreeing to the three-month timetable proposed in legislation passed by the […]

Admin/Auto2017-05-24T08:56:37+00:00September 30th, 2009|

Boxer, Inhofe Agree on [SAFETEA-LU] Extension (National Journal)

Boxer, Inhofe Agree on Extension (National Journal)

Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer and ranking member James Inhofe have agreed on extending surface transportation law by three months, putting them on par with what the House approved last week, sources on and off Capitol Hill said.

They have also agreed that any extension must retain […]

Admin/Auto2017-05-24T08:56:37+00:00September 29th, 2009|

Some NC road projects planned before stimulus (ACT)

Sep 28, 11:07 AM EDT

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — At first, the $13 million repaving of a 10-mile stretch of Interstate 26 in North Carolina wasn’t a stimulus project. Then it was. Now it may not be.

The Asheville Citizen-Times reported Monday that the state Transportation Department had planned to […]

Admin/Auto2009-09-29T07:58:13+00:00September 29th, 2009|