Federal Transportation budget going broke….again

June 25th, 2009
From AASHTO.... On June 24th Deputy Secretary of Transportation John D. Porcari sent a letter to the chief executive officers of every state department of transportation in the country advising them of an impending cash shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund (HTF). The HTF is the federal funding source for thousands of state highway projects, which support hundreds of thousands of jobs, across the country. The Deputy Secretary's letter put all state DOTs on notice, warning that instead of sending states overnight reimbursements for transportation investments, the Federal Highway Administration could begin to ration state repayments; possibly shifting ...