The Hidden Infrastructure Tax We’re All Paying: New Economic Study
January 12, 2021
Think about what you can do with an extra $3,300 a year. Narrow that down to $275 each month—a typical car payment. Simplify that number a little more to $63 dollars a week – takeout for a family a four once a week (we’re all doing a lot of that these days). This amount of......
ASCE Releases Preliminary Data on Investment Trends in Transit, Roads, and Bridges
September 22, 2020
With the impending expiration of the FAST Act on September 30, the American Society of Civil Engineers released new data on transit systems, roads, and bridges, showing that the current transportation system investment trends are unsustainable, producing dire consequences for the American people and the economy. The cumulative investment gap between what we are currently......
Arizona and Wisconsin Receive “C” Infrastructure Grades in New Report Cards
September 17, 2020
On the heels of the eighth annual United for Infrastructure kickoff this past Monday, both the Wisconsin and Arizona Sections of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) released their 2020 Infrastructure Report Cards. Arizona Arizona civil engineers gave nine categories of infrastructure an overall grade of a ‘C,’ meaning the state’s infrastructure is in......
Congress Must Prevent Surface Transportation Project Delays
September 03, 2020
Despite strong industry advocacy efforts and recent actions taken both in the House and Senate, Congress is unable to reauthorize our federal surface transportation programs before the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act expires on September 30, 2020. Congress’ inability to meet this deadline creates uncertainty, leading to project delays, and a subpar transportation system.......
State DOTs Adjust Relief Request Amid Updated Projections
July 24, 2020
With persisting stay-at-home orders across the nation, severe revenue losses including sharp declines in dedicated user fee revenues, continue to be felt across state departments of transportation (DOT). As a result, the ability of state DOTs to carry out their core functions, including capital construction programs, is under threat. Through imposed furloughs and either delaying......
House Appropriators Markup FY2021 Transportation Spending Bill
July 08, 2020
On the heels of the House passing the Moving Forward Act last week, Chairman David Price (D-NC4) and the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies marked up and passed their spending bill for fiscal year (FY) 2021. The legislation provides $75.9 billion in total discretionary spending – a......
July 01, 2020
The following is a statement by K.N. Gunalan “Guna,” Ph.D., P.E., President, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in response to the House passage of H.R. 2, the Moving Forward Act: Today, the House of Representatives prioritized modern, resilient, and sustainable infrastructure as part of America’s recovery. We commend the House for making infrastructure investment a......
ASCE Recommendations Adopted in House Climate Crisis Action Plan
June 30, 2020
This week, the Democrats on the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis released their “Climate Crisis Action Plan,” which includes many of the recommendations that ASCE made in our letter to the Committee late last year. Our letter stated, in part: “Civil engineers work to harden existing and build new infrastructure to better withstand......
June 24, 2020
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) today released COVID-19’s Impacts on America’s Infrastructure, a status report on the COVID-19 pandemic’s detrimental effects on the nation’s critical, yet aging and underinvested airports, bridges, dams, drinking water, energy, inland waterways, parks, ports, roads, schools, transit and wastewater infrastructure. The report provides a snapshot of these sectors,......
June 19, 2020
The following is a statement by K.N. Gunalan “Guna,” Ph.D., P.E., President, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in response to the House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee’s passage of 2020 surface transportation reauthorization, the Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America (INVEST in America) Act: “We are encouraged......