Tag: Patrick Jones

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

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

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

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