Comments on: What does the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 mean for travelers? http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/what-does-the-american-recovery-and-reinvestment-act-of-2009-mean-for-travelers/ The last honest travel site Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:45:00 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Douglas L. Sakiestewa http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/what-does-the-american-recovery-and-reinvestment-act-of-2009-mean-for-travelers/comment-page-1/#comment-10165 Douglas L. Sakiestewa Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:32:17 +0000 http://www.tripso.com/?p=9543#comment-10165 Federal agencies will need to specify how grant funds will be made available to the States as pass thru to cities, etc., or directly to municipalities. The time from surveys, right of ways, soils testing, design, and construction start to finish has been historically sometimes years in the planning stages. What steps or phases may be skipped to get the job market going will be interesting. Moreover, competitive awards of major State and Federal highways (I-numbers) has a few large or very large construction companies usually from out of State (not within most states), and how will jobs be kept within confines of a State boundaries in that instance. There are too many questions due to uncertainty of skilled laborers and mechanics being trained and ready for apprentice or journeyman level work within the time of award to road and bridge completion. Do I make any sense about the real activity at ground zero so to speak. How may any innovative short cuts help the funds to be used and into jobs for workers? For discussion.. Federal agencies will need to specify how grant funds will be made available to the States as pass thru to cities, etc., or directly to municipalities. The time from surveys, right of ways, soils testing, design, and construction start to finish has been historically sometimes years in the planning stages. What steps or phases may be skipped to get the job market going will be interesting. Moreover, competitive awards of major State and Federal highways (I-numbers) has a few large or very large construction companies usually from out of State (not within most states), and how will jobs be kept within confines of a State boundaries in that instance. There are too many questions due to uncertainty of skilled laborers and mechanics being trained and ready for apprentice or journeyman level work within the time of award to road and bridge completion. Do I make any sense about the real activity at ground zero so to speak. How may any innovative short cuts help the funds to be used and into jobs for workers? For discussion..

]]> By: Tim http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/what-does-the-american-recovery-and-reinvestment-act-of-2009-mean-for-travelers/comment-page-1/#comment-10037 Tim Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:30:28 +0000 http://www.tripso.com/?p=9543#comment-10037 $27 billion for highways? That's barely $500 million per state which won't go very far. $27 billion for highways? That’s barely $500 million per state which won’t go very far.

]]> By: Carter Stewart http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/what-does-the-american-recovery-and-reinvestment-act-of-2009-mean-for-travelers/comment-page-1/#comment-10020 Carter Stewart Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:46:35 +0000 http://www.tripso.com/?p=9543#comment-10020 I think that the Bill is ready to move, now that we have seen some of the more protectionist clauses of "Buy American" taken out of play. That said, there seems to be some more disturbing news on air-travel related protectionism in the form of Chairman Oberstar's HR831- calling for a review of airline alliances and antitrust. This bill has the potential to do some real damage to much needed international consolidation and airline alliance activity. Have a look at the bill and it's analyis more in depth on our blog at http://www.twclimited.com/blog I enjoy your site, Elliott I think that the Bill is ready to move, now that we have seen some of the more protectionist clauses of “Buy American” taken out of play. That said, there seems to be some more disturbing news on air-travel related protectionism in the form of Chairman Oberstar’s HR831- calling for a review of airline alliances and antitrust. This bill has the potential to do some real damage to much needed international consolidation and airline alliance activity.

Have a look at the bill and it’s analyis more in depth on our blog at http://www.twclimited.com/blog

I enjoy your site, Elliott

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