Articles Tagged with ''Transportation Infrastructure''

Illinois transportation officials unveiled a six-year, $21.3-billion upgrade program recently, despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the gas tax shortfalls expected from it.

After lengthy markup, package, drafted by Democrats, heads toward a floor vote, maybe by July 1.

Proposal unveiled by DeFazio is silent on how to pay for the $138-billion trust-fund infusion needed to fully fund it.

The virus impact on aviation, port, rail, bus and bridge traffic puts $20 billion of planned capital spend at risk, said Rick Cotton, regional Port Authority executive director at NJ airport briefing.

Market analysis conducted March 23-27 shows two-thirds of 225 respondents have had project schedule impacts.

But Speaker Pelosi, other key legislators decline to say how plan will be paid for or when it might move in the House.

Update: Other bidders were Archer Western, $498.4-million; Granite-Parsons-Middlesex, $479.1 million; and Wagman-Trumbull-Weeks, $605.6 million.

Half of the total dollars went to rural projects, continuing a Trump administration emphasis.