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This Week in Infrastructure: All the Reasons to Fix the Trust Fund

December 12, 2014By: America's Infrastructure Report Card

Reports on transportation investment and its overall benefits to the economy provide incentive for Congress to #FixTheTrustFund as state lawmakers make their own push for infrastructure investment. On Tuesday, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) released the 2015 Bottom Line Report, which thoroughly evaluated......

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Tags: gas tax, highway trust fund, infrastructure investment, infrastructure report card

Advocate Profile: Shawn Kelley, Ph.D., P.E., M. ASCE

December 11, 2014By: America's Infrastructure Report Card

Shawn Kelley Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE is an active member of the Vermont section. He works as a firm shareholder for GeoDesign, Inc. a consulting firm headquartered in Middlebury, CT, providing geotechnical, construction, and environmental engineering consulting services to the design and construction industry. He works in the Windsor, VT office managing civil engineering projects related......

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This Week in Infrastructure: Final Push in 2014 for Highway Trust Fund Fix

December 05, 2014By: America's Infrastructure Report Card

Power failures, drivers frustrated with abysmal road conditions and increased media attention to our nation’s aging infrastructure have rattled Americans and driven more states to pursue raising their gas tax as a way of fixing the Highway Trust Fund. This past Tuesday, a massive power failure left large sections of Detroit in darkness. According to......

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Tags: 2013 Report, gas tax, highway trust fund

Higher Gas Taxes Will Help Michigan Build a 21st Century Infrastructure

December 04, 2014By: Maria Matthews

In 1997, Dolly was cloned, we were excited by the release of IE 4, and ASCE hadn’t yet released its first Report Card for America’s Infrastructure.  It is also the last time Michigan increased its gas tax to the current 19-cents per gallon.  The diesel tax rate has been in effect since 1984. The time......

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Tags: gas tax, roads, transportation

Sky High Air Travel Traffic

November 25, 2014By: Becky Moylan

Whether your amount of air travel rivals that of George Clooney in Up in the Air, or you are a casual flier who takes a plane for an annual vacation, the newly-released data from the U.S. Travel Association will give you pause. In the new report, Thanksgiving in the Skies: A Look at the Future......

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Tags: aviation, FAA Reauthorization, Thanksgiving, travel

ASCE Past President Flies Over Pittsburgh on 60 Minutes

November 24, 2014By: Becky Moylan

ASCE Past President Andy Herrmann flew over the “city of bridges” with 60 Minutes’ Steve Kroft to highlight America’s aging bridges in a segment that aired Sunday, Nov. 23. Falling apart: America’s neglected infrastructure Herrmann was among several experts interviewed for the piece, including former Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR).......

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Tags: bridges, highway trust fund, Report Card for America's Infrastructure, roads

This Week in Infrastructure: Thankful for Ramped-Up Media Interest in Infrastructure Renewal

November 21, 2014By: America's Infrastructure Report Card

With holiday travel underway and harsh weather already arriving in some regions, the state of our nation’s highways will become even more apparent as thousands of Americans take to the roads to visit family and friends during the Thanksgiving holiday.  However, our current D+ in infrastructure and lack of sufficient funding for the Highway Trust......

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Tags: highway trust fund, Report Card for America's Infrastructure, state report card

ASCE Past President Andy Herrmann To Talk Infrastructure with 60 Minutes

November 21, 2014By: Becky Moylan

This Sunday, Nov. 23, ASCE Past President Andrew W. Herrmann, P.E. SECB, F.ASCE, will discuss the state of our nation’s bridges during primetime TV on CBS’ 60 Minutes via a helicopter tour of Pittsburgh. 60 Minutes Video – The roads and bridges Americans drive on every day are in dire need of repair or replacement......

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Tags: 60 minutes, bridges, highway trust fund, infrastructure, Report Card for America's Infrastructure, roads

8 Things Worth Knowing About Montana’s C- Infrastructure

November 19, 2014By: ASCE Staff

Montana’s Water Pipes Could Stretch From Billings to Miami – Roundtrip Montana has approximately 700 public water systems and over 5,300 miles of water distribution and transmission piping, a longer stretch than driving roundtrip from Billings to Miami. Some Pipes Under Original Montana Plots Might Be Original Too Some of the older and more established......

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Tags: dams, infrastructure, Montana, pipes, report card, schools, water

This Week in Infrastructure: Bipartisanship Needed to Get Infrastructure Improvements Rolling

November 14, 2014By: America's Infrastructure Report Card

With the midterm elections completed and the Congressional lame duck session underway, Americans are looking for a fresh approach to infrastructure investment at the federal level.  ASCE hopes that the new Congress will respond to our nation’s infrastructure needs with compromise and urgency before May, when the Highway Trust Fund will once again become insolvent.......

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