What's Happening in Transportation & Infrastructure

Hearing on the 2010 Dept. of Transportation Budget: House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development

On June 4th, Rep. John Olver (D-MA) led the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and...

Corps of Engineers Releases Stimulus Project List

Today, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released their stimulus project list. The first thing that comes to mind is that the Obama...

Members of Congress Voice Support for Cost-Effective Salmon Recovery

This week more than 70 Representatives sent a bipartisan letter to President Obama asking for his commitment to restoring Columbia and...

Knik Arm Crossing Gets Another Cost Estimate

An independent cost estimate puts the price tag for the Knik Arm Crossing—a.k.a. Don Young’s Way—in Anchorage, Alaska at $686 million...

Highway Group Calls for Doubling of Transportation Spending

In case you missed it, the American Association of State and Highway Officials (AASHTO) earlier this week announced its proposal for a...

Highway Trust Fund Fix Hurts Taxpayers

The Senate yesterday approved an $8 billion transfer from the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) (the House passed the same measure...

TCS Requests Don Young Campaign Remove Misleading Ads

Recently it was brought to our attention that Alaskans for Don Young has been running radio ads claiming that Taxpayers for Common Sense...

Independent Audit Ordered for Bridge to Nowhere

The Anchorage Daily News reports today that the state of Alaska will ask for an independent cost estimate of the Knik Arm bridge.  This...

Highway Trust Fund Being Driven to Bankruptcy

Last week, USA Today had a story about how the decline in miles traveled by America’s drivers, largely the result of historically high...

The Gas Tax Holiday:  Good Politics, Bad Policy

With the average price of a gallon of gasoline over $3.601 and diesel well over $4.002, it’s no surprise that political solutions to the...

Engineering Boondoggles

While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as...