Transportation & Infrastructure
We need to rebuild America – beginning with our entire transportation infrastructure. Experts tell us we need to invest $1 trillion to rebuild our crumbling transportation system – and in the process create some 13 million new good paying middle class jobs in construction, and throughout our economy.
As Minnesota’s only member of the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure, I continue to work on a bipartisan basis to advance a comprehensive, long-term transportation plan with new sources of funding to rebuild our highways, roads, bridges, airports, harbors, railroads, mass transit systems and pipelines. Our ability to grow our 21st Century economy and successfully compete in the global marketplace depends on the progress we make in achieving these goals.
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It may look like a parking lot, and in some ways, that's what the rehabilitation of Docks C & D at the Clure Public Marine Terminal has created.
But it's kind of a bigger deal than that.
"(The berths) triple surface storage capacity," said Sen. Al Franken after a tour at the port of Duluth on Monday. "This is good not just for Duluth but for all of Minnesota."
Citing $300 million per year for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) and several other successful Nolan initiatives for Minnesota’s Eighth District included in the bill, U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan today voted in favor of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2016.
The plight of a development project at Brainerd Regional Airport helped inspire U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan to introduce legislation he says will lower costs when airports across the country want to build.
The bill that passed unanimously in the House Thursday night was inspired by incidents business leaders in the Brainerd lakes area recently experienced when they wanted to build a hangar at the airport capable of housing private jets, and were willing to put up $1 million to fund it, Nolan said—but the project hit a snag.
U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken, along with Representative Rick Nolan, today announced that the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has awarded $374,598 to the St. Louis and Lake Counties Regional Railroad Authority for railroad crossing safety in Duluth.
Four railroad crossings in Duluth will be improved to enhance safety, members of the Minnesota congressional delegation announced on Monday.
The Federal Railroad Administration has awarded nearly $375,000 to replace and upgrade warning systems at crossings on Railroad Street, 45th Avenue East, 47th Avenue East and McCulloch Street, according to a joint news release from Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken and Rep. Rick Nolan, D-Crosby.
(International Falls, MN) -- The U-S Department of Transportation will spend two-million dollars helping officials at Falls International Airport begin the first phase of a major renovation project. Congressman Rick Nolan and Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken had pushed the federal agency to provide the help. The existing airport terminal was built about four decades ago. Part of the money will pay for a jetway to move passengers from the terminal to aircraft without going outside into the weather.
The U.S. House of Representatives today passed U.S. Rep Rick Nolan’s bill, H.R. 6014, with unanimous support to reduce unnecessary cost burdens on State and Local governments and their airports from the Federal Government when conducting airport improvement and expansion projects. Currently, State and Local governments are being forced to pay an inordinate amount of money to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to complete a project that could be done at a lower cost by the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT).
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken, along with Rep. Rick Nolan, announced Tuesday the U.S. Department of Transportation awarded Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport a grant of $1,253,575 for infrastructure improvements, a news release said.
"The funds from this grant will help the Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport make critical investments in its infrastructure to move goods and people quickly," Klobuchar said in the release. "Investing in our airports will boost performance, enhance safety, and help support good local jobs."
We brought Washington to Minnesota again when U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx visited Duluth on July 21. And wow, was he ever impressed with our people and with what he called our “city with a plan” for creating good jobs by gearing our infrastructure to advance mining, agriculture, forestry and tourism well into the 21st century (“Foxx praises local plans: US transportation secretary visits Duluth, roundtable,” July 22).