Looking ahead to President Trump’s $1-trillion, 10-year infrastructure plan, rural states are laying down a marker. Transportation officials from rural areas say public- private partnerships generally won’t help them.
While infrastructure advocates wait to see what sort of investment plan President Trump will propose, a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing provided another forum to discuss what to do about deteriorating highways and other transportation networks.
Construction spending in the U.S. fell by 0.2% in December, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.18 billion, according to the U.S. Dept. of Commerce’s Census Bureau.
Officials at BP’s U.S. Lower 48 business unit say they will relocate the multinational energy company’s headquarters to Denver from Houston, with the move expected to be complete in early 2018.