News & Analysis as of

Infrastructure Department of Transportation (DOT) State and Local Government

Cozen O'Connor

Democratic AGs Sue to Protect States’ Access to Federal EV Infrastructure Funds

Cozen O'Connor on

A group of 17 Democratic AGs has filed suit to block the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration from revoking or withholding funds allocated to states under the National Electric Vehicle...more

Cozen O'Connor

New York Note: New Oversight for Adams, Congestion Pricing, Asylum Seeker Shelters

Cozen O'Connor on

Last Thursday, Governor Hochul announced that she would not be exercising her authority to remove Mayor Adams from office. However, she explained that she will seek to increase state supervision of his administration....more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

Restoring Western North Carolina’s Infrastructure: NCDOT Receives $250 Million in Federal Emergency Relief Funds

Ward and Smith, P.A. on

Of this funding, the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) will receive $250 million to repair damaged roadways and bridges, including Interstate 40. Another $32.6 million will be split between the U.S. Forest...more

Cozen O'Connor

Illinois Insights: An update from Cozen O'Connor (2/18)

Cozen O'Connor on

“Gov. JB Pritzker will present his seventh budget proposal Wednesday as the state faces a projected $3.2 billion revenue shortfall for fiscal year 2026, which begins July 1. Federal pandemic aid has all been allocated and the...more

Baker Donelson

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee's 2025 State of the State Address: Key Budget and Legislative Takeaways

Baker Donelson on

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee delivered his seventh State of the State address on February 10, 2025, outlining the state's legislative and budgetary priorities for the upcoming year. The proposed $59.5 billion budget for...more

Wiley Rein LLP

DOT Order Links Federal Transportation Funds to Marriage and Birth Rates

Wiley Rein LLP on

On January 29, 2025, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy issued an Order announcing that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) would prioritize issuing grants, loans, and contracts to communities with “marriage and...more

Maison Law

California's Daylighting Law: Keeping Vulnerable Road Users Safe

Maison Law on

As with many states throughout the United States, California deals with an extremely high number of traffic-related accidents that harm pedestrians, bicyclists, skateboarders, and others. For this reason, legislators have...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Arkansas' Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Deployment Program: Arkansas Department of Transportation Announces Electric Vehicle...

The Arkansas Department of Transportation (“ADOT”) announced what it describes as: …an interactive webmap as a tool to view the current EV charging service gaps in Arkansas (“Map”)....more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Biden-Harris Administration Allocates Historic $3.3B for Community Reconnection Projects

The U.S. Department of Transportation announced $3.33 billion in grants for 132 projects to reconnect communities previously cut off by transportation infrastructure, addressing historic disparities. These initiatives, part...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Energy & Climate Counsel

EV Roundup - September 2023

The past 6 months have seen a flood of activity in the EV charging space. Since our last update, states have started implementing their electric vehicle deployment plans under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s (“BIL’s”)...more

Holland & Knight LLP

The Inflation Reduction Act: Provisions and Incentives for Local Governments

Holland & Knight LLP on

President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) into law on Aug. 16, 2022, following its passage along party lines in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. The comprehensive legislation is the...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Federal Government Approves First $900 Million Toward Development of a National Network of Fast-Charging Electrical Vehicle...

McDermott Will & Emery on

The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program, sponsored by the US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), will provide $5 billion in funding for states to establish...more

Holland & Knight LLP

California Starts Paving the Way with Issuance of First AV Deployment Permit

Holland & Knight LLP on

An earlier Holland & Knight Transportation Blog discussed the progress of new autonomous vehicle (AV) regulations in California and the expected support of the Biden Administration. (See "New California Regulations Pave Way...more

Shutts & Bowen LLP

COVID-19 Stimulus Relief and the Construction Industry

Shutts & Bowen LLP on

The $908 billion stimulus package (COVID-19 Relief Package 2.0) that was signed into law on December 27, 2020, which was attached to a $1.4 trillion spending bill to fund the federal government through September, was an...more

Nossaman LLP

San Luis Obispo Regional Transportation Authority Closes First TIFIA Loan Under Rural Projects Initiative

Nossaman LLP on

On September 3, 2020, San Luis Obispo Regional Transportation Authority (SLO RTA) closed the first TIFIA loan under the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (Department’s) Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation...more

Bilzin Sumberg

National P3 Update - Transportation

Bilzin Sumberg on

This installment of our National P3 Update focuses on transportation.  While the transportation sector has dominated the U.S. P3 market over the last decade, the sector has experienced stagnation since the financial close of...more

Bracewell LLP

Recent Florida News: Toll Road P3s and Autonomous Vehicles

Bracewell LLP on

1. Multi-use Corridors of Regional Economic Significance (“M-CORES”) - Three potential new Florida Public-Private Partnerships (“P3”). On May 17, 2019, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law SB 7068 (the “Bill”),...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

[WEBINAR] Automated Vehicle Pilot Project Risks and Smart Infrastructure

As pilot projects testing self-driving and connected vehicles continue to roll out across the country, new policy, liability and contractual issues arise — in addition to considerations around future "smart" infrastructure...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

A Long Island Sound Crossing – Will This Bridge or Tunnel Ever Be Built?

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on

For many decades, Long Islanders have been hearing about proposals to span over or under Long Island Sound. The most recent pronouncement for a cross-sound tunnel or bridge came from Governor Cuomo in his 2016 state-of-state...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Transportation Public-Private Partnerships in Arkansas: The Road to P3s in the Natural State

Over the last several years, the federal government has promoted public-private partnerships (“P3s”) as one way to address the dire need for American infrastructure investment. States agree. For example, last year in...more

Nossaman LLP

Northern Lights Express Proposed Passenger Rail Service Receives Federal Environmental Approval

Nossaman LLP on

The Northern Lights Express intercity rail proposal, connecting Minneapolis and Duluth, Minnesota with a stop in Superior, Wisconsin, advanced forward following a Finding of No Significant Impact (“FONSI”) from the Federal...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Legislative Outline for Rebuilding Infrastructure

Holland & Knight LLP on

On February 12, 2018, the White House unveiled its 55-page proposal for infrastructure investment, the Legislative Outline for Rebuilding Infrastructure. The sweeping proposal seeks to inject funding into several key areas...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

West Virginia, Tightening the Belt, and Growth - Financing Public Improvements in Lean Budget Times

Since 2008, many state and local governments around the country have faced budget challenges. As lawmakers struggle to produce balanced budgets in the face of declining revenues, investment in public improvements, such as...more

Nossaman LLP

Ninth Circuit Rejects Challenges to Arizona Highway Project

Nossaman LLP on

On December 8, 2017, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected two challenges to the 20-mile South Mountain Freeway Project in Phoenix, Arizona. The decision is the latest in a series of court decisions...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

GAO Report on Automated Vehicles Finds DOT Needs Roadmap

On November 30, 2017, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report (“Report”) outlining its findings of the key challenges facing policy-makers as the regulatory environment seeks to promote the...more

27 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 2

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide