Sep 29 2009
This week’s topic on the National Journal’s Tranportation Expert’s Blog wonders about the ability to increase the federal gas tax when anti-tax sentiment can be so passionate. ASCE’s Executive Director, Pat Natale says: The “Tea Party” protest that descended on the National Mall this month reminds us that any mention of a tax increase galvanizes a [...]
Sep 24 2009
Thanks to the quick action of ASCE Key Contacts who called their legislators urging support, the U.S. House of Representatives voted last night to approve a three month extension of the federal highway and transit program. The current law authorizing those programs, SAFETEA-LU, expires September 30. The final vote on the extension was passed with [...]
Sep 22 2009
As designers, builders, and maintainers of the nation’s infrastructure, civil engineers have long urged the immediate reauthorization of the federal surface transportation program to ensure vital investments that protect health and safety and keep the economy moving are made. As the current law, SAFETEA-LU, is about to expire on September 30, ASCE is joined by [...]
Sep 10 2009
That’s the question this week on the National Journal’s Transportation Experts Blog – ASCE’s answer is, yes, definitely! Freight today rarely travels by truck alone, and the transfer from one mode to the next often adds to costly delays and pollution from idling vehicles. The needs of our global economy demand that we start enhancing [...]