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Federal transportation and infrastructure investment is positively impacting the economy and supporting job creation. A review of transportation contract awards from all sources, a leading indicator of future construction activity, from the ten months before and after release of the recovery act?EUR??,,????'?????<????????????EUR??,,??s transportation funds reveals: Highway contract awards increased 19.4 percent; Bridge contracts are up 14.6 percent; Airport awards have grown 61.2 percent; Transit contracts climbed 216 percent.
That was the message of Tennessee highway contractor Steve Wright, president of Wright Brothers Construction Company, based in Charleston, Tenn.
?EUR??,,????'?????<????????Going into 2009, we faced a severe recession, uncertainty about the federal surface transportation program reauthorization and continued state budget difficulties,?EUR??,,????'?????<???????? Wright said at a progress report hearing on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). ?EUR??,,????'?????<????????Transportation construction firms laid off almost 25,000 employees in 2008 and early 2009. The one bright spot for our sector was the recovery act?EUR??,,????'?????<????????????EUR??,,??s transportation investments.?EUR??,,????'?????<????????
Wright noted that the two-year negative transportation construction market trend began reversing in May of last year?EUR??,,????'?????<???????????the same point at which we saw recovery act funds begin supporting projects. Although ARRA has provided some jobs for the construction industry, it hasn?EUR??,,????'?????<????????????EUR??,,??t been determined the overall effect on the landscape sector.
?EUR??,,????'?????<????????Many of the jobs supported by the bill will begin to disappear,?EUR??,,????'?????<???????? Wright said. ?EUR??,,????'?????<????????To sustain and build on ARRA and re-energize the long-term growth potential of the United States, we must not lose sight of the need to enact a six-year surface transportation authorization bill at the $500 billion funding level proposed by the committee as soon as possible.?EUR??,,????'?????<???????? ?EUR??,,????'?????<??????????????+ Courtesy of Construction Equipment
Francisco Uviña, University of New Mexico
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Ash Nochian, Ph.D. Landscape Architect
November 12th, 2025
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