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TIAC tracks the latest state & local transportation funding news. To contribute to this effort, contact Carolyn Kramer Simons.
Tennessee Lawmaker Requests $280 Million Returned to State Highway Fund
Tennessee Senate Transportation Committee Chairman Jim Tracy (R-Shelbyville) Aug. 10 called for the state to repay the highway fund $280 million that had been diverted to the general fund between 2001 to 2007. Tennessee’s Department of Transportation is funded through a combination of “dedicated funding” [...]
Tennessee Transportation Coalition Uses Maps to Highlight Unfunded Highway Projects
by Eileen Houlihan, ARTBA senior writer editor The Transportation Coalition of Tennessee, a statewide group of businesses, citizens, community leaders, public officials and organizations – including ARTBA chapter Tennessee Road Builders Association – launched a group of interactive maps Aug. 4 showing hundreds of unfunded [...]
Fourteen State DOTs Concerned About Feasibility of Future Transportation Projects due to Highway Trust Fund Uncertainty
Officials in 14 states have said that their transportation programs will be impacted if Congress does not take action soon to fix the ailing Highway Trust Fund (HTF). Four of those states have already canceled or delayed more than $868 million in transportation improvement projects [...]
Federal and State Officials Push Senate Transportation Panel for Long-Term Bill
Members of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee January 28 heard from U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx, Governors Robert Bentley (R-Ala.) and Peter Shumlin (D-Vt.), and South Dakota Secretary of Transportation Darin Bergquist about how continued uncertainty of federal highway and transit [...]
States Talking Transportation for 2015
Looking Back at 2014 Transportation was a hot topic with state legislatures in 2014, with 66 bills introduced across the country. Over twenty transportation-related bills were approved, with funding legislation approved in 11 states. Of those states, both Rhode Island and New Hampshire passed state [...]
Updated: Twenty Six States Express Federal Funding Concerns
With people traveling in record numbers across our nation’s roads this 4th of July weekend, the need to repair our nation’s infrastructure is even clearer. However, many states may halt or delay needed transportation projects due to uncertainty surrounding the future of the Highway Trust [...]
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