Dive Brief:

• Note to Congress: Delays and avoiding issues have real effects, as evidenced by an 11% fall in road construction in June.
• The fall-off put highway construction for June at $4.2 billion, which was $500 million behind June 2013. It also erased gains that had been made since last year.
• However, bridges and tunnels were a counterpoint, with $3.02 billion put in place for 3% growth over the year-before figure.

Dive Insight:

In other modes, railroad work was pretty much flat, airports were down, and ports and waterways were up. It remains to be seen if July construction put in place also falls. The patch that Congress approved to get the Trust Fund through May did not come until the bitter end of July.