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WASHINGTON — Legislation that would ensure long-term funding for infrastructure projects nationwide will make its way through the transportation committees in the House and Senate, the chairmen of those panels announced last week.

WASHINGTON — Details of a long-term infrastructure plan and the recipients of additional funding for freight projects will be announced soon, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao told a Senate panel May 17.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue says the Trump administration’s $1 trillion infrastructure bill should attempt to mitigate highway bottlenecks, promote long-term economic growth and update regulations to make private investment more attractive.

WASHINGTON — Little optimism was heard from podiums and audiences at Infrastructure Week events last week that Congress will pass President Donald Trump’s planned $1 trillion infrastructure funding bill soon, or that the federal government will be looking to public- private partnerships to plug a gaping hole in the Highway Trust Fund.

As Infrastructure Week wraps up, TT Congressional Reporter Eugene Mulero was joined by three Capitol Hill watchers to assess what was accomplished in a special Reporter Roundtable edition of LiveOnWeb. Watch the replay.

WASHINGTON — A long-term infrastructure funding bill will be considered by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, the panel’s chairman told Transport Topics on May 17.

Leaders from business, government, organized labor and trade associations gathered in Washington for an annual weeklong discussion about improving the nation’s infrastructure, with a message for President Donald Trump about his $1 trillion plan: Let’s see it.

Bumper-to-bumper traffic along the country’s highways resulted in operational costs to the trucking industry of more than $63.4 billion in 2015, a new report by the American Transportation Research Institute found.

WASHINGTON —There seemed to be little optimism at an afternoon session on public-private partnerships that Congress will pass a $1 trillion infrastructure funding bill by year’s end or that the federal government will receive P3s with open arms anytime soon.