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Tag: International Bridge Tunnel and Turnpike Association
Roadbuilding
Senate EPW releases MAP-21 Reauthorization Act
The Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee on Monday night revealed the text of its surface transportation reauthorization bill. Dubbed the MAP-21 Reauthorization Act, the six-year bill would reauthorize surface transportation projects through fiscal year 2020 and is indexed for inflation. Highlights outlined in the bill’s summary include: Six years of fully-funded highway programs […]
May 13, 2014
Roadbuilding
Interstate tolling gains new enemy in big-business group
There’s no question about the need to find a way to fund repairs to highways and infrastructure across the nation, particularly after an especially harsh winter left potholes and other damage on countless roads. Related: Reason Foundation: Value-added tolling is ‘better deal’ for drivers than gas tax And even before winter storms scarred roads, the […]
April 8, 2014
Roadbuilding
Reason Foundation: Value-added tolling is ‘better deal’ for drivers than gas tax
Tolling — particularly value-added tolling — would be a more beneficial transportation infrastructure funding option for highway users than an increase in the gas tax, according to a policy brief released Thursday by the Reason Foundation. Related: 5 Myths of Highway Tolling The report, “Value-Added Tolling: A Better Deal for America’s Highway Users,” suggests that […]
March 31, 2014
Roadbuilding
IBTTA Twitter chat series to focus on transportation, tolling issues
The International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA) on Tuesday will launch a series of Twitter chats that focus on transportation issues such as tolling funding and investment. Dubbed #TranspoChat, the monthly series will kick off Tuesday at 3 p.m. Eastern Time with the first hour-long chat, “Making the Case for Federal Investment in Transportation: […]
March 21, 2014
Roadbuilding
Transportation leaders speak up at Senate EPW hearing on MAP-21
Several transportation leaders offered testimony about highway funding on Wednesday morning at a Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) hearing on MAP-21. The hearing, entitled “MAP-21 Reauthorization: The Economic Importance of Maintaining Federal Investments in our Transportation Infrastructure,” kicked off the committee’s work on a new highway funding bill, Politico reports. The hearing […]
February 13, 2014
Roadbuilding
President Obama briefly addresses transportation in State of the Union
Tuesday night, President Obama gave his State of the Union address, which offered a chance for the president to present potential solutions for transportation and infrastructure funding. However, our sister site Overdrive points out that the president only briefly mentioned transportation in his speech. Instead bringing focus to nation’s deteriorating transportation system, Obama mentioned infrastructure […]
January 29, 2014
Roadbuilding
Mike Heiligenstein begins one-year term as IBTTA president
Mike Heiligenstein has begun his one-year term as president of the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA). Heiligenstein, who was elected at IBBTA’s 81st Annual Meeting in Vancouver, began his term on January 1. Heiligenstein also serves as Executive Director of the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority (CTRMA) in Austin, Texas, as well as […]
January 6, 2014
Roadbuilding
IBTTA Executive Director, CEO Patrick Jones calls for tolls as means to relieve congestion
Patrick Jones, executive director & CEO of the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA), this week pointed to tolling as a solution to traffic congestion. At the U.S. Travel Association’s Connecting America Through Travel Conference in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, Jones called on the travel industry to embrace tolling as a means to relieve […]
November 22, 2013
Roadbuilding
U.S. Travel Association to host conference focused on infrastructure improvements
Later this month, the U.S. Travel Association will host a conference aimed at promoting transportation infrastructure investment. The conference, Connecting America Through Travel, will take place November 19-20 at The Knight Conference Center at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Travel Association notes that the conference will feature “an important dialogue on how to […]
November 7, 2013
Roadbuilding
5 Myths of Highway Tolling
With reauthorization less than a year away, it’s time for lawmakers to begin considering funding options that will bring in revenue for the nation’s deteriorating transportation infrastructure. Though talk of increasing the gas tax recently spiked (Former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue both suggested this month raising federal fuel […]
October 30, 2013
Roadbuilding
Study proposes implementing per-mile tolls on U.S. interstate system
In an attempt to provide a solution to America’s transportation funding problems, the Reason Foundation has proposed tolling interstates and charging 3.5 cents per mile for cars and 14 cents per mile for trucks. The Reason Foundation, a libertarian nonprofit organization that researches public policy, revealed the proposal Thursday with its study, “Interstate 2.0: Modernizing the […]
September 13, 2013
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