'GAS TAX HOLIDAY' SPREE
WOULD ENDANGER
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION FUNDING AS FY 2009 SHORTFALL LOOMS
INDUSTRY
LEGISLATIVE 'FLY-IN'
DELEGATES WILL HAVE
HANDS FULL IN MAY 2008
BUSH ADMINISTRATION DID NOT UNVEIL DRAFT
REAUTHORIZATION LEGISLATION IN MID-APRIL 2008
WOULD
HAVE FOLLOWED ARTBA, NAPA AND NATIONAL COMMISSION PROPOSALS, AMONG
OTHERS, AND
COME IN ADVANCE OF MAY INDUSTRY FLY-IN
IN REBUKE TO G.O.P. GOVERNOR,
MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE OVERRIDES
GAS TAX INCREASE VETO
MEASURE
IN LATE FEBRUARY CLEARS WAY FOR $6.6 BILLION, 10-YEAR TRANSPORTATION
PACKAGE
U.S. DOT REJECTS
MAIN FINDINGS
OF NATIONAL SURFACE TRANSPORTATION POLICY AND REVENUE STUDY COMMITTEE
U.S.
DOT SECRETARY PETERS SLAMS MASSIVE GAS TAX INCREASES, ENLARGED AND NEW
BUREAUCRACIES SUGGESTED BY PANEL MAJORITY REPORT
DOT
PROVIDES 'SOUND BITES' FROM STAKEHOLDERS OPPOSING NATIONAL COMMITTEE'S
GAS TAX INCREASES
ARTBA
LAUDS COMMISSION'S 'BOLD NEW ACTION' TOWARD FIXING INFRASTRUCTURE
ILLS
AASHTO
SUPPORTS PANEL'S 'BOLD AND GROUNDBREAKING' IDEAS, REAFFIRMATION OF
FEDERAL ROLE
AGC
SECONDS NATIONAL COMMISSION REPORT FINDINGS, URGES CONGRESS TO CONSIDER
PANEL'S RECOMMENDATION
NATIONAL
COMMISSION REPORT, RELEASED ON JAN. 15
ARTICLE
ON NATIONAL COMMISSION BY TOM KUENNEN IN BETTER ROADS MAGAZINE,
FEBRUARY 2007
JUST
BEFORE CHRISTMAS BREAK, CONGRESS
PASSES $40.2 OBLIGATION CEILING FOR HIGHWAYS IN FY 2008
BUT
AS FEARED, BILL REQUIRES $4.107 BILLION IN RECISSIONS; SHORTFALL IN
HIGHWAY TRUST FUND LOOMS FOR FY 2009
LET 'CRITICAL COMMERCE
CORRIDORS' BECOME FOCUS OF NEXT FEDERAL PROGRAM, ARTBA SAYS
AS
BUSH ADMINISTRATION TRANSPORTATION POLICY DRIFTS, PRIMARY D.C.
TRANSPORTATION ADVOCACY GROUP URGES CORE FUNDING RENEWAL, PLUS NEW
FEDERAL FOCUS FOR SAFETEA-LU REAUTHORIZATION
LINK
TO 72-PAGE REPORT
TOLLS, PRIVATE SECTOR
MAY BUILD HALF OF NEW
EXPRESSWAYS IN COMING DECADE
BUT
PUBLIC BACKLASH MAY HAMPER SHIFT, AND SYSTEM NEEDS STILL WON'T BE MET,
SAYS AASHTO'S HORSLEY AT ARTBA PUBLIC-PRIVATE VENTURES CONFERENCE
HORSLEY'S
PPT PRESENTATION (PPT READER REQUIRED)
GO-GETTER PETE RAHN NEW PRESIDENT OF
AASHTO FOR 2008
CURRENT
MISSOURI DOT DIRECTOR AND FORMER N.M. DOT DIRECTOR THINKS OUTSIDE BOX
AND HAS STRONG IDEAS FOR AASHTO DURING HIS TENURE
FHWA, STATE DOTS SCRAMBLE TO EVALUATE
STEEL DECK TRUSS BRIDGES IN WAKE OF I-35W COLLAPSE
STATE-BY-STATE INVENTORIES
PROFILED AT FHWA.DOT.GOV
URGENT PLEA FOR ACTION TO ADDRESS $4
BILLION SHORTFALL FOR HIGHWAY TRUST FUND IN 2009
NEW ESTIMATES FROM OMB RELEASED JULY 11 INDICATE $3.8
BILLION SHORTFALL
KUDOS FOR KUENNEN'S
PAVEMENT PRESERVATION
PRESENTATION TO
MINNESOTA DOT
"KUENNEN'S PRESENTATION AT
THE 11TH ANNUAL MINNESOTA PAVEMENT CONFERENCE -- TITLED 'HOT BUTTON
ISSUES IN PAVEMENT PRESERVATION' -- WAS LIKE A STATE-OF-THE UNION
ADDRESS ON PAVEMENT PRESERVATION"
MARY PETERS CONFIRMED
AS NEW U.S. DOT TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY
CONFIRMED BY SENATE ON SEPT.
30, 2006, JUST BEFORE RECESS
PETERS SERVED AS FHWA
ADMINISTRATOR FROM 2001-2005
PRESIDENT'S AND PETERS'
STATEMENTS SEPT 5
MARY
PETERS FACT SHEET
FLASHBACK
2002: "Congestion is a problem of demand outpacing capacity," Peters
told
AASHTO. "We need to break the antihighway cycle that has plagued us.
Sometimes
transportation really is about asphalt, concrete and steel."
GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY
OF INTERSTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM!
LEGISLATION WAS SIGNED
BY EISENHOWER JUNE 29, 1956
AASHTO-SPONSORED CARAVAN
RETRACES 1919 EISENHOWER TRIP -- IN REVERSE!
RESOURCE LINKS FOR GOLDEN
ANNIVERSARY OF INTERSTATE
EXPRESSWAYSONLINE.COM'S
KUENNEN WROTE INTERSTATE
50
210-PAGE COMMEMORATIVE PUBLICATION
IN 2005, AFTER
RECORD 12 EXTENSIONS, CONGRESS
PASSES SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BILL
BILL OBLIGATES $286.4 BILLION
THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2009
ASPHALT:
PERPETUAL
PAVEMENTS,
NOVEL
HMA MIXES
GIVE
CONTRACTORS,
GOVERNMENTS
NEW
OPTIONS
CLICK
HERE
CONCRETE:
FHWA's
MAJOR CONCRETE
INITIATIVE
ONLY PART
OF
DYNAMIC CHANGE
CLICK
HERE
ROADS
AND THE
WAR
ON TERRORISM
RALLY FOR ROADS!
The nation's roadbuilders and their allies are pondering how
they will provide the roads and highways the nation will need to
maintain its
economy and help fight the new War on Terrorism. Now more than
ever,
we need to keep our highways and bridges secure, intact and in good
working order.
CLIENT
NEWS
AND
PUBLICATIONS!
EXPRESSWAYSONLINE.COM'S
TOM KUENNEN WRITES EXCLUSIVELY FOR BETTER
ROADS MAGAZINE IN 2008!
Read
the February ROAD SCIENCE article from ExpresswaysOnline.com on the
web site of Better
Roads, Green
Highways Now Part of Complete Package
Read
the April ROAD SCIENCE article from ExpresswaysOnline.com on the web
site of Better Roads, New, Low-Cost Web Resources Will Drive Pavement
Inventories
NEW: READ THE
FALL/WINTER 2007 WIRTGEN
TECHNOLOGY MAGAZINE
A 4.2 mb pdf file . . written and photographed by Expressways
Online,
from the website
of Wirtgen America, Inc. ,
which is managed by Expressways Online ( Adobe
Acrobat Reader required)
NEW: READ THE SUMMER 2008 PAVEMENT PRESERVATION JOURNAL
READ THE SPRING
2008 PAVEMENT
PRESERVATION JOURNAL
. . . the new quarterly publication edited by Expressways
Online, for
the Foundation for Pavement Preservation
(Adobe
Acrobat Reader required)
PRIMER
ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Puzzled about presumed Climate Change? Don't know what to
think? Let Expressways Online tell you what to think! Here
you'll find a
variety of short essays explaining the climate change furor, as
developed
for the Greening Earth Society.
READ
OUR ARTICLE
. . . on Hot In-Place recycling of asphalt pavements of University
Park, Tex., for Cutler Repaving Inc.
READ
OUR ARTICLE
. . . on Would 'Green' Movement Have Pulled TVA's Plug?,
for the Greening Earth Society.
READ OUR
ARTICLE
. . . on the website of Construction Equipment Distribution
, on Western Power & Equipment
READ OUR
ARTICLE
... profiling water blasting contractor Hennigan Engineering and its
cleaning of the heat exchangers at Indian Point III nuclear power plant!
READ 10-PART HISTORY OF 20th
CENTURY AMERICAN ROAD BUILDING AND THE AMERICAN ROAD &
TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION (ARTBA)
Series
commissioned by ARTBA and written
by ExpresswaysOnline in 2001; Adobe
Acrobat Reader required, click above for links to 10 installments
ARCHIVED
NEWS ARTICLES!
BACKTRACK 2003:
FUNDS
SHORTAGE
EMERGES
AS CRITICAL ISSUE IN TEA-21
REAUTHORIZATION
A
SHORTFALL IN FUNDING IN CRITICAL FEDERAL SURFACE TRANSPORTATION FUNDING
THREATENS ROAD
CONSTRUCTION AND PRESERVATION EFFORTS
BACKTRACK 2002:
INDUSTRY,
LEGISLATORS WANTED $40
BILLION
TO
$50 BILLION/YEAR TEA-3 PROGRAM
(and
that's not all ...)
ARTBA LAYS OUT PLAN
FOR $60 BILLION/YEAR
PROGRAM BY FY 2009
BACKTRACK 2002: LINES
DRAWN IN TEA-21 REAUTHORIZATION!
ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES SEEK 'MONUMENTAL'
CHANGE IN U.S. SURFACE TRANSPORTATION POLICY
OTHER ARCHIVED ARTICLES
ON HIGHWAY POLICY!
INDUSTRY, LEGISLATORS HUSTLE
TO
RESTORE FY 2003 FUNDING
April 2002 -- Back then it looked like the road construction
and maintenance industry would recover most of the surface
transportation funding cuts planned by the Bush administration for FY
2003, which begins Oct. 1.
YEAR 2001 SEASON
WAS WATERSHED
IN WORK ZONE SAFETY
September 2001 -- During the 2001 road work season, the
industry stepped up its war on work zone fatalities and injuries with
new efforts at the
national level, and among states as well
FEDS, STATES AND PRIVATE SECTOR
SCRAMBLE TO DELIVER PROJECTS
July 2001 -- Transportation Secretary Mineta vows more
concrete is on way, as inadequate funding no longer main issue for
highway, airport work
ATTACK ON FEDERAL GAS TAX RESUMES
AS CONGESTION
PROBLEMS
INCREASE
May 2001 -- A suspension or
"holiday" in the collection of all or part of the federal gas tax --
even if temporary -- would endanger the highway industry's
attempts to reduce the backlog of U.S. highway infrastructure
construction needs.
Click Here for More
Politics and Funding Articles
ARCHIVED
TECHNICAL
ARTICLES!
ASPHALT
INDUSTRY
HEAVES
SIGH OF RELIEF
AS
NIOSH EASES AWAY
FROM
FUMES FINDING
May 2001 -- The
federal government isn't about to declare fumes from asphalt paving
operations to be carcinogenic.
FHWA INCLUDES WORK ZONE
MOBILITY IN NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULE MAKING
FOCUS ON DRIVER DEATHS
IN WORK ZONE AWARENESS WEEK
ABANDONMENT
OF THE RESTRICTED ZONE
BY SUPERPAVE SPECS
WILL MEAN BETTER MARKET
FOR AGGREGATE GRADATIONS
Superpave secret: Use right
roller . . . Foamed Asphalt makes inroads in Wisconsin . . .
Superpave restricted zone under fire . . . Ann Arbor conference in
Seattle report . . . High-Performance Concrete ... Click Here
For More Methods
and Materials Articles
REFERENCE
AND ARCHIVAL MATERIAL!
ANALYSIS
How Gore-Lieberman Win Would Have Impacted U.S. Fuel Taxes,
Prices (October 2000)
Will Lack of "Hard" Research Cause
F-SHRP to Fall Flat? (March 2000)
Don't Ignore the Soccer Moms and Dads
(August 1998)
PRIMER ON REAUTHORIZATION
Here's a must-have background on 1998 Surface Transportation
reauthorization, including a glossary
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