• Senate Budget Plan Would Hike User Fees to Help Highway Trust Fund   

  By Dean Franks, senior vice president, congressional relations, ARTBA  Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) March 22 released a five-year budget proposal that would allow Congress to enact nearly $90 billion in new highway user taxes to keep the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) solvent through 2024. The statement accompanying his FY 2020 budget proposal includes this paragraph:  The resolution calls for $176 billion in increased revenue over ...

  Posted: 3/22/2019
  Category: Legislative

• ARTBA Newsline Podcast for March 22, 2019

  The ARTBA Newsline Podcast for March 22 is hosted by ARTBA senior writer/editor, Eileen Houlihan. A new professional development program for transportation design and construction professionals is being held June 4-6 at ARTBA’s Washington, D.C. offices. The Trump administration released additional details about the president’s FY 2020 budget, including impacts on the Highway Trust Fund ...

  Posted: 3/22/2019
  Category: Podcast

MRBA also provides its members a resource to easily find MS Office of State Aid Road Construction Current Scheduled Bid Openings. To view the latest State Aid projects and State Aid Bid Calendar, please click on the Member Login link below.

• LSRP-09(3) - Chickasaw County

  1.700 Mi of Grade, Drain, Base and Surface

  Let Date: 3/27/2019
  

• SAP-02(17)M - Alcorn County

  10.888 Mi of Slurry Seal

  Let Date: 3/29/2019
  

• LSBP-36(31) - Lafayette County

  0.090 Mi of Box Bridge and Gravel Approaches

  Let Date: 4/1/2019
  

• SAP-14(11)M - Coahoma County

  0.772 Mi of Overlay

  Let Date: 4/4/2019
  

As a service to our members, MRBA provides an automated feed of the Current Contracts and Bidding from MS Department of Transportation. Please click on the Member Login link below. MDOT is currently offering free training for the new Bid Express System. Find out more information here.

• Call 01 for letting 2019-03-26

  Mill & Overlay approximately 10 miles of US 45 from Aberdeen North Corp Limit to Dryden Road, also known as Federal Aid Project No. NH-0002-05(090) / 107676301 in Monroe County.

  Posted: 3/4/2019
  Category: Project

• Call 02 for letting 2019-03-26

  Interchange Improvements on I-10 at County Farm Road, known as Federal Aid Project No. NHPP-0010-01(162) / 107876301 in Harrison County.

  Posted: 3/4/2019
  Category: Project

• Call 03 for letting 2019-03-26

  Overlay approximately 7 miles of US 98 from East ROW of SR 63 to SR 198 E Lucedale, known as Federal Aid Project No. NH-0014-03(075) / 107791301 in George County.

  Posted: 3/4/2019
  Category: Project