PHIA News Digest – Vol. 5, No. 37
Tolls on N.J. Turnpike, Garden State Parkway, and A.C. Expressway are going up
The increases, which have met with opposition in recent months as financial impacts from the pandemic continue to burden residents, will help fund construction projects.
Pa. could lose manufacturing jobs because of public transportation’s funding crisis
Public transportation’s funding crisis amid the COVID-19 pandemic could cost jobs in Pennsylvania and New Jersey by impacting billions in spending on goods from rail cars to construction services.
Bayfront Parkway project receives $21 million in federal BUILD grant
The U.S. Department of Transportation and Pennsylvania’s federal lawmakers announced Thursday the project will receive $21 million in federal BUILD (Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development) Grant funds.
Truck drivers ‘fearful’ of whether they’ll find open, clean facilities as they travel through Pa.
When federal and state officials began repeating the message to increase sanitation standards and hygiene care to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, at least one industry deemed essential – trucking – found itself stuck on how to do that.
