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Government relations and lobbying update - February 25, 2008

  • Leonard, Street and Deinard
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 25 2008

In an unprecedented move, the House and Senate passed a major transportation funding bill just a week into the 2008 legislative session

New California law prohibits retention on CalTrans transportation projects

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 23 2009

California has enacted a new law, Senate Bill 593, which prohibits CalTrans from withholding retention from progress payments to contractors on transportation projects

Virginia Supreme Court overturns taxing power of regional transportation authorities

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 29 2008

On February 24, 2007, the Virginia General Assembly passed, and the governor subsequently signed into law, a comprehensive legislative package to provide for significant increased funding for transportation

Government relations and lobbying ALERT - February 2008

  • Leonard, Street and Deinard
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 18 2008

The 2008 legislative session began Tuesday at an unusual speed with committees already meeting into the evening

Federal stimulus available to Michigan transit agencies through new grant programs: federal guidance expected soon on rail funding

  • Dykema Gossett PLLC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 10 2009

The US Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, has published formulas and grant application requirements for transit funding under the American Recovery Reinvestment Act (ARRA

Next stop, district court (again)! Second Circuit vacates injunction barring disclosure of trade secrets concerning New York City subway brakes

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 13 2009

Opening with a tribute to the iconic New York City subway system, complete with citations to sources as diverse as Leonard Bernstein and The Bonfire of the Vanities, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this week vacated and remanded a preliminary injunction barring a braking system manufacturer from disclosing proprietary drawings and other information to the New York City Transit Authority during the contracting process

TIFIA and private activity bonds: additional financing sources for US PPP transportation projects

  • White & Case LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 31 2007

As the market for transportation public private partnerships gathers pace in the United States, private sector concessionaires are increasingly tapping into supplemental forms of debt finance, facilitated by the US federal government, that provide the benefit of lower cost financing and potentially longer tenors than is typically available in the taxable bank or bond markets

Ohio governor announces priority transportation projects

  • Bricker & Eckler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 23 2009

On March 26, 2009 Ohio Governor Strickland announced proposed highway and bridge projects in Ohio to be funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Snail mail, now snail rail

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • December 18 2007

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown approved financing for a $33 billion cross-rail, eastwest tube from Maidenhead and Heathrow Airport to Paddington, then to East London

Federal Railroad Administration awards funds for intercity passenger rail service program and Amtrak capital grants

  • Dykema Gossett PLLC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 7 2009

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has awarded a $297,000 grant to the Midwest Regional Rail Initiative (MWRRI) to continue rail corridor planning, which may lead to the development of several high-speed rail corridors