In a first-of-its-kind study, Transportation Equity Network (TEN) surveyed how states are doing at creating job opportunities in infrastructure for women and minorities. They found some notable bright spots, but a lot more work to be done. As TEN points out in their release, infrastructure investment continues to present an untapped opportunity for job creation [...]

Consider a couple of eye-popping statistics: From 2004-2008, states spent 57 percent of available highway dollars to add a little over 1 percent to our already vast highway network, and only 43 percent to maintain the other 99 percent of highway lanes. Keeping our existing highway network in “good” condition would require spending $43 billion [...]

Many states fail to track the results of their transportation dollars, according to a new report by the Pew Center on the States and the Rockefeller Foundation. The report, Measuring Transportation Investments: The Road to Results, is quick to tie the timing of its findings to the current debate over including more performance measures in [...]

Smart Growth America is out with a report demonstrating the potential for smart transportation spending to create jobs today and grow our economy tomorrow. According to data sent by the states to Congress, the states that created the most jobs invested their stimulus funds in public transportation and projects that maintained and repaired existing roads and bridges.

In the run up to the economic stimulus, we’ve been taking a hard look at some of the transportation project lists that states are putting together. While many of details of the federal stimulus are still being hashed out, our analysis of these state project lists has made one thing quite clear — if we [...]

As Congress crafts an economic stimulus that can help get our economy out of a rut, state departments of transportation are submitting lists of “ready-to-go” infrastructure projects. With commuters crowding into overburdened transit systems in record numbers and our elected leaders calling for green, 21st Century investments, it’s unfortunate that most are busily submitting wish lists that look to be mostly about digging a deeper ditch.