DeSoto Parish police jurors recently voted to carve out more than $5 million in the 2015 budget for road construction and repair. The Times reports it’s the first significant earmark for roads since the two-year, $30 million project completed in …
The state of Illinois is giving local governments $100 million to help repair roads and address other transportation needs following a particularly brutal winter. Gov. Pat Quinn announced the funding during a news conference in Chicago on Monday. The money …
Michigan legislative leaders have agreed to set aside $215 million for road maintenance, partly to help local governments grappling with winter costs and potholes. A House-Senate committee approved a spending bill Wednesday while another storm was hitting the state. More …
The brutal winter has prompted pothole complaints across the state, but they’re so bad in one western Pennsylvania town that the county transit agency is rerouting buses around one especially bad section of road. CamTran, which runs the buses in …
Storm-weary New Mexico is getting some help from the federal government on flood cleanup. The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Friday it will make immediately available $2 million in emergency relief funds to help the state cover the costs of …