Dive Brief:

• There has no lack of warning from transportation officials about the bad effects that are on the horizon if the National Highway Trust Fund doesn't get connected to some cash pipeline before Oct. 1 – and perhaps earlier.
• Now, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials has opened a website to tell the story of what will happen across the country if the fund hits empty.
• Some states have begun to rearrange their spending plans or are cutting back on what they had hoped to build because they cannot count on federal money and lack the resources to replace it.

Dive Insight:

If road-building programs run out of gas, it affects contractors, some seriously. There has been talk in Congress about fixing the problem, but one solution – raising fuel taxes for the first time in 20 years – is a hard sell.