Payments from Federal Highway Trust Fund Halted

Congress has let the federal highway program lapse.  This means that starting today, states, transit agencies and localities will not be able to be reimbursed by MDOT. The third in a series of short-term extensions of the federal surface transportation programs...

U.S. Senate Votes to Save Federal Highway Trust Fund

The Senate approved legislation yesterday to transfer $8 billion to restore solvency to the federal Highway Trust Fund. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters had announced that federal-aid payments to the states would be withheld because of a shortage of funds....