The Texas House of Representatives adopted a resolution over the weekend to dedicate billions of dollars to transportation funding, one day after the state Senate adopted the resolution’s conference committee report. Senate Joint Resolution 5 calls for the creation of a constitutional amendment, which will be on the Nov. 3 ballot, that would allocate a specific amount of general sales tax revenue toward the State Highway Fund. Read More »

The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) said Monday that a Wayne State University (WSU) study found that rumble strips on state highways significantly reduces head-on, sideswipe and run-off-the-road crashes. MDOT started a major rumble strip program in 2008, when centerline and shoulder rumble strips were installed on all rural, nonfreeway highways with posted speed limits of 55 mph and appropriate paved lane and shoulder widths. To date, MDOT has placed 5,700 miles of centerline ru Read More »

Work includes projects to encourage more biking and walking Read More »

Changes to STIP affect Interstate 20/Interstate 26/Interstate 126 Corridor improvements Read More »

President Obama said Friday that he intends to nominate Marie Therese Dominguez as administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) and Sarah Feinberg as administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), both at the Department of Transportation (DOT). Read More »

Hickory, North Carolina-based Transportation Insight said Thursday it received Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine's SDCE100 Award for the second year. The award was based on the company's role in assisting a major consumer goods distributor quantify and control supply chain costs associated with serving customers. Read More »

David Hall of Birmingham, Alabama-based Baker Donelson has received the Transportation Lawyers Association's (TLA) 2015 Distinguished Service Award. Read More »

Union Pacific plans to make a $383 million investment in Texas' transportation infrastructure this year, the company said on Friday. "We constantly evaluate our customers' needs to make targeted investments that enhance our efficiency and deliver the goods American businesses and families use daily," Brenda Mainwaring, Union Pacific's vice president for public affairs-Southern Region, said. Read More »

Connecticut House and Senate leaders on Saturday endorsed Gov. Dannel Malloy’s historic transportation agenda that will lead to the largest transportation investment in state history. Read More »

St. Paul, Minnesota’s city engineer said a strong infrastructure is needed to draw new business to cities and foster economic development, and uncertain federal transportation funding works against that. “It takes a lot of money to run our basic infrastructure and we’re severely underfunded,” said John Maczko, city engineer at the St. Paul Public Works Department. Read More »

Arkansas Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Hot Springs, introduced legislation that calls for transferring monies from Medicaid to fund the beleaguered Highway Trust Fund. Called the Prioritizing American Roads and Jobs Act, Westerman told TI News Daily in a written statement his plan would free up more than $15 billion per year in mandatory spending that is going only to three out of five states that expanded Medicaid. Read More »

Michigan Congressman Sandy Levin, D-Roseville, and 14 other Democrats recently sent a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan requesting comprehensive, bipartisan hearings with outside stakeholders to find a long-term funding solution for the Highway Trust Fund. Read More »

Connecticut will fund an historic transportation initiative by using half a cent of the state’s 6.35 percent sales tax, a move that was praised by a construction group but criticized by some Republican lawmakers. Read More »

Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee said they will mark up a long-term highway bill June 24 and are working with other committees to prepare the safety and transit portions of the reauthorization measure. Read More »

Echo Global Logistics said on Monday that it has completed its acquisition of Command Transportation, LLC, which will operate as a subsidiary. As part of the acquisition agreement, Echo will take on outstanding membership units that amount to approximately $420 million; $25 million of this purchase was made in both common stock and restricted common stock, which was issued to 33 employees of Command to accommodate Nasdaq listing regulations. Read More »

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said Sunday that his office and legislative leaders reached a budget agreement on funding the largest investment in transportation in the state's history. The agreement will ensure a $2.8 billion increase over the next five years for infrastructure. The increase, combined with planned capital spending and federal aid, will mean approximately $10 billion will be used in the next five years to make repairs and enhancements to the state's transportation infrastructu Read More »

Alaska will receive $2 million in emergency relief funds from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration to help repair the flood-damaged Dalton Highway, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said Friday. The funding will be welcome news to the people and businesses around Fairbanks that rely on the impaired highway for transportation. Read More »

GE Capital Transportation Finance launched a new fuel-card services program on Monday that is specially tailored to over-the-road trucking (OTR) companies and fleets. The new card program will be accepted at many of the truck stops across the U.S. WEX, Inc., a top provider of corporate payment solutions, based in South Portland, Maine, will administer the program. Read More »

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) recently partnered with U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, National Park Service (NPS) Director Jonathan Jarvis, and U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell in urging Congress to pass a long-term transportation and infrastructure bill. Read More »

Staff from the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) said on Monday that they concluded their bridge inspections after an earthquake that occurred recently in Caliente, Nevada, and found no bridges that were unfit for travel. The staff spent 160 hours inspecting the bridges located within a 50-mile radius of the earthquake’s epicenter. The earthquake measured at least a 5.0 magnitude. Read More »