Transportation Infrastructure

Turns out Baltimore needs the supply chain more than the supply chain needs Baltimore. In the wake of the March 26 horrific bridge collapse that closed the Port of Baltimore to maritime vessels, shutting down one of the busiest ports in America has meant … not that much to maritime shippers. They just moved freight to New York, Newport News, Va., or Savannah, Ga.

The collapse of the 47-year-old, 1.6-mile Francis Scott Key Bridge is going to have supply chain repercussions for months, if not longer, supply chain experts are saying.

More than $4.9 billion in funding for from the White House’s “Investing in America” initiative was announced by President Biden and Transportation Secretary Buttigieg for 37 projects through two discretionary grant programs, the National Infrastructure Project Assistance (Mega) grant program, which awarded $2.0 billion in grants, and the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) grant program, which awarded $2.9 billion in grants.

A recently-held House Transportation & Infrastructure (T&I) Committee hearing focused on implementation and oversight of the bipartisan $1.2 billion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, with a sharp focus on “ensuring it is implemented as Congress intended.”

The first task was passing President Joe Biden’s massive $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, his signature accomplishment of his first two years in office. Now comes an equally arduous challenge: making sure that money is spent as it was intended without the waste and inefficiency that sometimes marks spending by the federal government.

Taking steps to put the recently-passed Bipartisan Infrastructure Law into action, the White House and the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) said this week that $2.9 billion in funding is now available through a combined NOFO (notice of funding opportunity). DOT said that this NOFO meshes three discretionary grant programs into a single Multimodal Projects Discretionary Grant and reducing the burden for state and local applicants while also increasing the pipeline of what it calls “shovel-worthy” projects.

President Joe Biden took his $1.2 trillion infrastructure victory lap Monday, culminating an up-and-down 25-year investment drive to upgrade this nation’s roads, bridges, air, waterway and broadband connections.

With President Biden set to sign the Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act (IIJA) into law later today, Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently caught up with two attorneys at Washington, D.C.-based Venable LLP—James H. Burnley IV, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation and one of the nation’s foremost authorities on transportation law and policy, and Fred Wagner, former chief counsel of the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)—about the legislation and related things...

When President Joe Biden signs the historic $1.2 trillion infrastructure measure into law on Nov. 15, it culminates a 25-year drive to upgrade this nation’s roads, bridges, air, waterway and broadband connections.

Leadership for the Washington, D.C.-based Coalition for America’s Gateways and Trade Corridors (CAGTC) praised the recent passing of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure authorization that the House of Representatives signed off on late last week, following the Senate doing the same over the summer, which now awaits President Biden’s signature before becoming official.

After being held political hostage for three months, a transformational infrastructure package that includes $550 billion in new spending on highways, bridges and other transport measures finally passed a contentious Congress. It’s worth upward of $1.2 trillion, depending on estimates.

It is really hard to act surprised that political dysfunction, yet, once again, has pushed what was viewed as strong momentum for new national infrastructure bill off the tracks. The reasons for it are things we have all seen before, way too often, so the time for being caught off guard is again over.

It is a sprint to the finish for President Joe Biden’s signature legislative priority, a massive $3.5 trillion “human infrastructure” package. A bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill to repair the nation’s roads, bridges, pipes and broadband is hanging by a thread as Democrats wrangle with a much more expensive human infrastructure package favored by liberals but panned by conservatives.

While the United States Senate voting in favor of passing the $1 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) this week, there comes a sense of relief that a long-awaited bill was finally passed, but more work needs to occur for everything to fall into place moving forward, according to various transportation infrastructure experts.

As expected, a bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure deal passed the Senate today by a 69-30 vote. That included 19 Republicans in favor, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. It came after centrist senators in both parties and the White House reached a long-sought compromise on the bill. It now goes to the House where it is expected to pass and be signed into law after Labor Day.