Infrastructure and Roads

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• Funding in place for Oklahoma City; width could be changed
  Sep 4, 2010 — The Daily Oklahoman
  ...arisen about the width. Consultant Jeff Speck, hired to suggest ways to make downtown more pedestrian friendly, called the planned boulevard "a highway with trees" in a report provided last year to the city council. The boulevard has been a centerpiece of Mayor Mick Cornett's dream of expanding the urban core into a mixed-use community dubbed Core to Shore -- a currently blighted area between the current highway, the Oklahoma River and Bricktown. "Six lanes of traffic won't work...
• Study ranks Pa. 38th in roads quality
  Sep 4, 2010 — The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
  Under the study's proposal, $1.35 billion would be taken from roads and bridges and shifted to transit.
• EDITORIAL
  Aug 24, 2010 — The Baltimore Sun
  Ehrlich has been going around the state complaining that Mr. Ehrlich's pledge to roll back the sales tax increase Mr. Ehrlich wants just because he's the governor.
• The right sounds the alarm on Agenda 21
  Aug 16, 2010 — The Philadelphia Inquirer
  One of his ancestors owned part of the land on which Gen. Sam Rohrer, an unsuccessful Republican candidate for governor in the spring, joined legislators from Oklahoma and Washington in decrying what they see as overbearing federal interference in state matters. They accept federal regulations in order to get federal aid for transportation, education and welfare. States, he said, have even raised their drinking age to get highway funds.
• Irving summit focuses on transit funding
  Aug 12, 2010 — Fort Worth Star-Telegram
  Joe Pickett, D-El Paso, chairman of the House transportation committee, said he favored raising the state's 20-cents-a-gallon gas tax. Other states have the capacity to build these highways themselves." Hutchison also predicted that Congress wouldn't debate the reauthorization of a multiyear transportation bill until 2011.
• Texas eyes a piece of the high-speed-rail pie
  Aug 11, 2010 — Fort Worth Star-Telegram
  That money could help Texas get proposed high-speed-rail connections between Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin, San Antonio and Houston through the federally required environmental study process.
• Plug the damn hole!
  Aug 6, 2010 — Boston Herald
  Aug. 6, 2010 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) -- Beacon Hill may have passed "historic" reform of the commonwealth's transportation system.
• Coburn, McCain release third report on stimulus bill projects they say wasted taxpayer money
  Aug 4, 2010 — The Daily Oklahoman
  All of the money represented could have been better spent, McCain said. The stimulus bill had several elements. A big portion of the money was given to Oklahoma and other states to prevent mass layoffs of teachers and other employees, and there also was aid for the unemployed.
• Planners oppose transfer of federal road funds vy state
  Jul 27, 2010 — The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
  Legislature to address this as mature and responsible individuals, and not pass the buck." Commissioners Mark Schneider of Allegheny County and Rob Stephany of Pittsburgh voted against the resolution. Abstaining were PennDOT officials Joe Dubovi, Dan Cessna, Joe Szczur, James Ritzman and Kevin McCullough; Port Authority CEO Steve Bland and Assistant General Manager Wendy Stern; and Allegheny County Assistant Director for Transportation Initiatives Lynn Heckman. ...
• Southwestern Pa. Commission opposes diverting highway funds for mass transit
  Jul 27, 2010 — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  Rendell suggested last week as a last-ditch move if the Legislature failed to approve additional funding for the transit agency. People were saying this [flexing] takes the heat off the Legislature." Mr. We join the commission in its call for a lasting solution to this region's highway and transit needs," Mr.