Perdue picks Greensboro lawyer for Board of Transportation (News and Observer)
Gov. Bev Perdue has picked Greensboro lawyer Michael S. Fox to succeed J. Douglas Galyon in the Division 7 seat on the state Board of Transportation.
Fox, a former member of the Greensboro Planning Board, contributed $2,500 to Perdue’s campaign in 2007 and 2008. He […]
States Press Congress for Transport Jobs (The Journal of Commerce)
AASHTO presents list of 9,500 ‘shovel-ready’ projects
If Congress produces a jobs bill after Thursday’s White House jobs summit, state officials have 9,500 reasons why transportation infrastructure should get a major piece of the action.
At a press conference Wednesday, John Horsley, executive director of the American […]
States Offer Congress New List of “Ready-to-Go” Projects Worth $69.5 Billion: Investment Will Put People to Work – Fix Roads, Bridges, and Transit (AASHTO Press Release)
State transportation departments have identified 9,500 highway, bridge, transit, port, rail, and aviation projects worth more than $69 billion that, if funded, can be used to create hundreds of […]
NC Metro Mayors Recognize Sen. Josh Stein With Legislative Award
NC Metro Mayors Recognize Rep. Becky Carney With Legislative Award
Road transfer discussion likely to continue (NCLM Southern City)
The secretary of the state’s Department of Transportation believes there is room for improvement in the process of how to consider any possible transfer of responsibility for state roads to municipalities. The secretary shared his views during an N.C. League of Municipalities annual conference concurrent session on […]
Why big city pols are frustrated with Obama’s agenda—and why statehouses love it (The Atlantic.com)
During the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt frequently entertained his friend and fellow New Yorker Fiorello La Guardia, the mayor of New York City, at the White House. La Guardia would tell the president a “sad story” about some project he […]
Rethinking the Way on Infrastructure (The Hill)
With the specter of a jobless recovery looming, Washington has been casting about for ways to put Americans back to work. In the process, the political class has re-discovered infrastructure.
Just this past week leaders in Congress and the president’s own Economic Recovery Advisory Board have called on the […]
Mayors Sound Alarm Over Drop in City Revenues (Wall Street Journal)
WASHINGTON — Mayors from four U.S. cities said they are facing a once-in-a-generation fiscal crisis and that federal stimulus funds have, so far, been largely unhelpful in helping them balance budgets hit by steep drops in nearly every source of municipal revenue.
The comments, from mayors […]
Accident spurs state to study bridges (News and Observer)
RALEIGH After the second person in four years plunged through a narrow gap between I-440 Beltline bridges, state Department of Transportation officials Monday launched a study of 17,000 bridges aimed at preventing similar deaths.
“We’re trying to determine the magnitude of this problem,” said Terry Gibson, the state […]
