Sentences with phrase «of highway funds»

Punitive damage payments would no longer be deductible from federal taxes if the version of a highway funding bill passed by the Senate Tuesday becomes law.

Not exact matches

At the end of October, the Highway Trust Fund becomes insolvent, lacking the funding it needs to continue projects that repair and build the nation's federal, state, and local highways, bridges, tunnels and mass transit programs.

Pennsylvania Representative Bill Shuster, the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has encouraged his Republican colleagues to consider raising the gas tax as a way to keep the Highway Trust Fund — which funds road, bridge and transit projects — solvent after 2021.

In the U.S., the federal government has announced a sweeping plan to fund EV charging stations every 50 miles over 25,000 miles of American highways, spanning 35 states.

Debt obligations issued by states, cities, counties, and other public entities that use the loans to fund public projects, such as the construction of schools, hospitals, highways, sewers, and universities

On this issue among others — like funding the government, raising the federal borrowing limit and financing highways — such business groups have found themselves at odds with traditional Republican allies who increasingly reflect a new populist strain of conservatism in the party that is often hostile toward big business.

Trust Fund Clock is Ticking: Four major trust funds (Social Security retirement, Medicare Hospital, Social Security disability, and highways) run out of full funding during the next 13 years, according to CBO projections.

While the building and maintaining of our roads and highways to ensure seamless transport across our states has had a positive impact on trucking, the lack of stable funding for the interstate system is threatening Eisenhower's vision.

The five - acre site at Price Road and Illinois Highway 173 contains about 3.5 acres of buildable land, Beatty said, and the village has about $ 35,000 in a park fund for expenditures.

The Park District has used monies from the Recreation Park Expansion & Improvement Fund twice: $ 100,000 towards the purchase of 100 N. Hickory in 1993 and $ 100,000 towards the purchase of the Northwest Highway property in 1999.

The District purchased 1.3 acres of land on the southeast side of Recreation Park along Northwest Highway (500, 506, & 510 East) for $ 840,000 in July 1999, using $ 100,000 from the Arlington Heights Park District / Frontier Days Recreation Park Expansion & Improvement Fund.

«As the pressure on funding for highways and transport services has increased it has become more important to understand the impact of safety interventions and how best to invest limited resources.

Revenue collected from a new strategic roads fund should also be spent on the upkeep of major routes managed by local authorities, two established highway consultants say today.

The Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) and infrastructure specialists Parsons Brinckerhoff and Balfour Beatty today launched the results of an initiative that provides a detailed «route map» for change and suggests new and innovative models for funding transport infrastructure.

CIHT's director of policy and technical affairs Andrew Hugill commented that the highways sector is currently facing a lot of positive change, from increased certainty of funding to new technological innovations.

There are currently excise taxes on alcohol, tobacco, liquid vehicle fuels (for highways), oversized tires for large trucks (presumably for highways), airplane tickets (for the FAA and TSA), multiple aspects of the firearms industry, bows and arrows, vaccines (for a vaccine injury fund), and in a variety of industries in support of marketing boards in those industries (although those cases have had mixed results in litigation).

It published a report on progress with the strategy today that calls on Highways England and the Department for Transport (DfT) to agree an updated delivery plan for the remainder of the current five year funding period which ends in 2020.

Also at 10 a.m., Deputy Senate Majority Leader and gubernatorial candidate John DeFrancisco will comment on the «misuse» of at least $ 8 million in State DOT and Thruway Authority capital fund resources to install 514 illegal «I Love NY» tourism signs along highways across New York, «I Love NY» tourism signs near the Albany Airport Entrance, Rt 155 (Albany Shaker Road), Colonie.

Trump's $ 4.4 trillion budget plan would slash funding for interstate highways, jeopardizing New York's plan to transform a stretch of Interstate 81 in Syracuse in the next decade, Schumer said.

I thank the Federal Highway Administration, the New York State Department of Transportation, and Governor Cuomo for helping secure this funding so that residents and visitors alike can have more safe and accessible ways to enjoy New York.»

Hinchey also secured funding for infrastructure improvements along Kings Highway in 2006 and 2008 before the federal government purchased property there in November for the Army Reserve Center project from a group that includes John Mullen, a partner of Hinchey's in the Partition Street Project.

Cuomo says the funding from the Federal Highway Administration will be administered by the state Department of Transportation.

«As a Town Highway Superintendent who maintains this aging infrastructure, I believe this funding is a must in order for us to supply proper services to the taxpayers of Ballston.

At a Staten Island press conference to announce funding for road repairs, Mr. de Blasio said he, like any other city driver, has his list of highways to avoid due to their shabby condition.

The report also highlights the potential slowing of transportation aid from the federal government in the current 2014 - 15 fiscal year as Congress balks at increasing the 18.4 cent excise tax on gasoline, the primary source for replenishing the Federal Highway Trust Fund.

After releasing the city's $ 77.7 billion preliminary budget in February, the mayor's office has been critical of New York state, saying that it hasn't «adequately funded road and bridge rehabilitation and highway maintenance.»

Sean Patrick Maloney, a Democrat who sits on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, supported bipartisan legislation to prevent the bankruptcy of the Highway Trust Fund.

Several states are tired of waiting for Congress to fix the federal highway trust fund, so they're considering raising gas taxes themselves to address their crumbling roads.

That announcement came as O'Mara and a number of colleagues from both sides of the aisle made their annual ask for an increase in Consolidated Highway Improvement Program (CHIPS) funding.

In case you did not know the Trump plan flips the highway funding formula around: today the federal government pays 80 % of a project's cost, under the Trump plan after 2020 it would be 20 %.

INDIAN LAKE A last - minute decision to increase fund balance usage for the highway department at a budget hearing last week saw the Town of Indian Lake's 2018 preliminary budget come in under the cap.

President Obama has put little political capital behind his transportation objectives; Congress has yet to hammer out a new transportation bill; the Highway Trust Fund is nearing bankruptcy; Governor Andrew Cuomo has yet to take a position on Gateway, and hasn't shown much enthusiasm for transit in general, and Christie seemed to express his position on mass transit with the cancellation of ARC, which has been the subject of a very damaging report by the Government Accountability Office.

The New York State County Highway Superintendents Association (NYSCHSA) and the New York State Association of Town Superintendents of Highways (NYSAOTSOH) say local governments need a minimum increase in funding for the Consolidate Highway Improvement Program (CHIPS) of $ 200 million to $ 638 million per year.

Those things have added up to a mayor that takes her message to Washington, to complain about delays in replenishing the Highway Trust Fund; to Albany, looking to get more state spending on infrastructure; and to the Clinton Global Initiative, as a member of the infrastructure working group.

Some $ 12.1 million in road resurfacing projects that will cover about 115 miles of state highway are the first of the» NY Works» transportation improvement projects that were funded under Cuomo's signed 2012 - 2013 budget.

Rep. John Katko asked a committee of House and Senate members Wednesday to restore $ 12 million in funding for Centro and billions for other public transit systems that were cut in a highway bill the House passed earlier this month.

Faced with a deadlock over transportation funding and highway tolls, Democratic legislative leaders last month quietly resorted to an audacious proposal that would have permitted the establishment of highway tolls without the approval of the General Assembly.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's $ 4.4 trillion budget plan would slash funding for interstate highways, jeopardizing New York's plan to transform a stretch of Interstate 81 in Syracuse in the next decade, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said Tuesday.

Like other proposed funding solutions, including the tax on vehicle miles traveled, highway tolls are controversial, especially in the parts of the state most likely to be impacted by tolls.

• Highway Infrastructure and Urban Transit, administered by the Department of Transportation and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, continued to fund thousands of jobs in construction projects around the State and directly funded 2,735 jobs.

These funds are awarded to a State after the President or the Governor issues a formal emergency declaration and the State files a request for the cost of damages to its eligible highways.

Totaling $ 4,445,454 in appropriations, including the General, Highway, Water and Sewer Funds, the proposed town budget would require an additional $ 71,296 in taxes to be raised, an increase of 2.53 percent over 2017.

While the Highway and Water Funds will see significant increases under the new budget, these are partially counterbalanced by a significant drop in Sewer Fund expenditures following the payoff of a bond and a nearly flat General Fund appropriation, up only.13 percent.

New York State could lose up to $ 170 million in federal highway funding (out of $ 1.7 billion last year) if the state doesn't remove new «I Love NY» highway signs.

Sen. Charles Schumer (D - NY) is calling on the Federal Highway Administration and the New York State Department of Transportation to unlock funds for the city of Utica to use in a new project.

The measure was necessary because the Highway Trust Fund, which is used to finance bridge and road construction projects, was set to run out of funding on May 31.

According to the USA Today Network, the money for the signs came from emergency transportation funds, usually meant for emergency repairs to highways and bridges, and that contractors who worked on the signs were paid overtime in order to get them in place before the July 4 holiday in the summer of 2016.

The hundreds of tourism signs the Cuomo administration installed along New York's highways could wind up costing the state $ 14 million in federal funding.

ALBANY, N.Y. — The administration of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo will remove and replace hundreds of «I love NY» tourism signs along New York's highways after officials in Washington said the state would lose $ 14 million in federal funding if they weren't removed.

Democrats launch radio ad criticizing Rep. John Katko for lack of long - term highway funding bill