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Kentucky Faces Potential Loss of Fed. Road Funds

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Roger Alford - ASSOCIATED PRESS - FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) Kentucky could lose nearly $650 million in federal funding in 2015 for building and maintaining roads unless Congress shifts additional money into the Highway Trust Fund, a state official said. Transportation Secretary Mike Hancock told the Legislature’s Joint Tra...

Looming HTF Crisis to Affect Over Half of Road, Bridge Investments

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CEG - As the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) lurches toward its fifth insolvency crisis in seven years when the MAP-21 surface transportation law expires in September 2014, federal surface transportation investment to the states could be dealt a crippling blow unless Congress acts, the American Road & Transpo...

ARTBA Leaders Urge Action on Highway/Transit Reauthorization Bill

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CEG - Addressing the long-term solvency of the federal Highway Trust Fund (HTF) and sustaining the gains of the stimulus law should be motivating factors for Congress and President Obama to complete action this year on the multi-year highway and transit reauthorization bill. Transportation design and c...

Fed Road Bill Requires Extra $20B

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CEG - Simply maintaining current physical conditions and levels of safety and traffic flow on the nation’s highway network will require $20 billion annually in new revenue flowing into the Highway Trust Fund over the life of the next federal surface transportation investment bill, a new analysis ...

Candidate Pledges to Veto New Transportation Taxes in VA

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CEG - Democrat Tim Kaine pledged prompt first aid June 23 to a Virginia roadways system in crisis, but said he would veto new transportation taxes for the approximately four years it would take to constitutionally shield the highway trust fund from legislative raids. Kaine said that if he’...