Infrastructure News Updates

Government, Business, Safety

Freight Groups Urge FHWA to Withdraw IIJA Memo

American Trucking Associations is among the groups calling on the Federal Highway Administration to withdraw a memorandum from a little over a year ago focused on the implementation of a $1.2 trillion infrastructure law.

January 19, 2023
Government, Business, Logistics, TCA

Georgia DOT Completes First Infrastructure Grant Project

ATLANTA — The Georgia Department of Transportation completed its first Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvement (CRISI) Grant project in January.

January 19, 2023
Government, Safety, Logistics

Ohio Awarded $2.4 Million Grant for Roadway Infrastructure

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration has awarded a $2.4 million grant to improve roadway infrastructure in an industrial corridor in eastern Ohio.

January 19, 2023
Government, Safety

FHWA Memo Useful Discussion Tool, Expert Says

WASHINGTON — Biden administration guidance related to maintenance priorities for infrastructure projects is proving valuable in the debate about the federal role in transportation, expert Susan Binder said Jan. 10.

January 17, 2023
Government

Freight Stakeholders Press Congress for Results

WASHINGTON — With the 118th session of Congress underway, freight stakeholders are calling on lawmakers to prioritize proposals targeting supply chain connectivity and long-standing concerns associated with the trucking workforce.

January 12, 2023
Government, Safety

Federal COVID Aid to be Allowed for Disaster Infrastructure Use

State and local governments will soon gain new flexibility to spend billions of federal coronavirus relief dollars on things not directly related to the pandemic.

January 10, 2023
Government, Logistics

$100 Million Maryland Grant to Fund I-81 Lane Expansion

Construction will move forward to ease congestion in western Maryland and improve regional freight transportation along Interstate 81 after Gov. Larry Hogan awarded the project a $100 million grant.

January 9, 2023
Government, Safety, Logistics

FHWA Announces $2.1 Billion for Four Large Bridge Projects

President Joe Biden on Jan. 4 visited the worn-out Brent Spence Bridge in Kentucky as part of the administration’s renewed push to highlight the bipartisan infrastructure law.

January 5, 2023
Government, Safety, Logistics

Nebraska Opens Lincoln South Beltway

One of Nebraska’s largest transportation projects is completed with the recent opening of the main part of the four-lane, east-west Lincoln South Beltway.

January 3, 2023
Government, Business, Safety

IIJA’s Implementation Gained Momentum in 2022

President Joe Biden during his State of the Union Address to Congress this year proclaimed that the United States was embarking on an “infrastructure decade,” setting the tone for the administration’s efforts to implement the bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure law.

December 16, 2022