An overwhelming majority of the general public ranks infrastructure investment as a top priority provided it comes in the form of new direct federal spending, according to a new poll conducted for Politico and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of public health.
01-18-2017 Elaine Chao, President-Elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Transportation, said the Trump Administration would leverage private investment along with direct federal spending to address the nation’s infrastructure needs.
01-12-2017 NATSO ANALYSIS: President-Elect Trump Supports a $1 Trillion Infrastructure Package. Is This Necessarily a Good Thing for Travel Plazas and Truckstops? As the trade association representing the America’s travel plazas […]
01-09-2017 Republican Leadership indicated that a massive infrastructure plan may not be the first order of business when President-elect Donald Trump takes office, despite campaign promises that a $1 trillion infrastructure package would be delivered within his first 100 days.
01-05-2017 NATSO met with various Department of Transportation officials last week to discuss a number of issues concerning the truckstop and travel plaza industry.
12-18-2016 NATSO has learned that the state of New York is violating the federal ban on commercializing interstate rest areas by selling food and beverages at newly-constructed welcome centers and rest areas along the Interstate Highway System right-of-way.
11-22-2016 Less than one week after Donald Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States, it is clear that the President-elect places a high priority on infrastructure spending. “We are going to . . . rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals. We’re going to rebuild our infrastructure, which will become, by the way, second to none. And we will put millions of our people back to work as we rebuild it,” Trump said in his victory speech.
11-14-2016 The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) this morning announced its initial round of alternative fuel corridor designations as Congressionally mandated under the December 2015 highway bill titled Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act.
11-03-2016 NATSO met with key regulators in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT’s) Federal Highway Administration Oct. 27. The meeting’s agenda was the proper implementation of a provision in the Highway Bill Congress passed last year directing DOT to establish “alternative fuel corridors” for alternative fueling stations.
11-01-2016 In a potentially critical development for off-highway businesses such as travel plazas and truckstops, the U.S. Department of Transportation is soliciting public input regarding expanding the types of goods and services that may be offered at highway rest areas located on the right-of-way. The Department is specifically requesting input as to what constitutes a “vending machine,” noting that technological advancements in this area have been significant in recent years.
09-30-2016 Congress is expected to vote this week on a stopgap appropriations measure known as a “continuing resolution” (or “CR”) to keep the government funded through mid-December. Although this will avoid a government shutdown, it will effectively freeze state and local transportation authorities’ funding levels, denying them — until at least December — increases they had been anticipating.
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