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Roadbuilding

Virginia governor signs transportation bill into effect

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell on Monday signed the state’s transportation bill into effect, CBS DC reported. The Road to the Future bill will enable sweeping, long-term funding for Virginia highway repairs and maintenance. It will replace the state’s 17.5 cent per gallon retail gas tax with a 3.5-percent wholesale tax on gasoline and a 6-percent […]

May 14, 2013

Roadbuilding

Rand Paul introduces bill to fund emergency transportation projects

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced a bill, S. 911, last week that would create funding for emergency transportation projects, The Hill reported. The Emergency Transportation Safety Fund would create a fund for new construction and repairs of transportation infrastructure. Paul said repatriated taxes–at a rate of 5 percent–would fund the projects without adding to the […]

May 13, 2013

Business

Are Americans “not willing to pay” for longer-lasting roads?

Over at our sister site Better Roads, columnist Kirk Landers has put together a pretty interesting, and brutally honest, estimation of the glaring discrepancy between Americans’ calls for quality, longer-lasting roads and their willingness to pay for them. You see, it’s pothole season, the time of year when road crews all over the nation get […]

May 13, 2013

Business

Better Roads: Time to start applying pressure on Congress for transportation bill replacement

Citing a report from the Congressional Budget Office that details a nearly bankrupt Highway Trust Fund and the real possibility of needing to dive into the General Fund in order to replace the current MAP-21 transportation bill, John Latta of our sister site Better Roads suggests highway contractors begin talking to their representatives about the […]

May 8, 2013

Business

Majority of Americans favor tolls as source for transportation funding

A recent survey of American motorists confirms the feeling that most aren’t fond of the idea of gas taxes, finding that a majority, 43 percent, favor tolls instead as a method for raising transportation and infrastructure funding. The 2013 American THINKS Tolling Survey, conducted by HNTB corporation, surveyed 1,000 Americans and found that 43 percent […]

May 7, 2013

Roadbuilding

Americans prefer tolls to fund transportation projects

The majority of Americans–71 percent–would be willing to pay a higher toll fare to save time, according to the results of the America THINKS 2013 Tolling Survey from HNTB Corporation. The survey, which polled 1,000 Americans in late January, looked at ways Americans think of tolling, also found that more than 63 percent of respondents […]

May 6, 2013

Roadbuilding

Massachusetts lawmakers work to resolve $500 million tax bill for transportation

Lawmakers in Massachusetts are meeting today to work on a tax bill that will raise $500 million for the state’s transportation system, Boston.com reported. The focus of today’s meeting is to resolve differences between the versions of the bill that each chamber has already passed. The bill calls for gas and cigarette tax increases.

May 2, 2013

Business

Two-thirds of Americans likely to say “no” to gas tax as transportation funding

According to a report from our sister site Better Roads citing a recent Gallup poll, two-thirds of Americans would oppose a 20-cent-per-gallon gas tax that would provide funding for transportation and infrastructure repairs. The poll was conducted April 9-10 shortly after Maryland passed its first gas tax increase in 20 years. The tax’s 13- to […]

April 24, 2013

Business

Obama’s 2014 budget includes $50B for infrastructure, “full support” for MAP-21

President Barack Obama has submitted his 2014 Fiscal Year Budget to Congress and a great deal of money has been set aside for construction projects. According to a report from our sister site Better Roads, Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget includes $50 billion for infrastructure repairs. Of that amount, $40 billion will go directly to Obama’s […]

April 12, 2013

Roadbuilding

Waiting for DiMaggio

Is the automobile over? Scary thought if fuel taxes continue to be the single biggest contributor to our transportation infrastructure funding structure. And they’re not my words; it’s a headline from Motor Trend magazine last fall. I’m resurrecting this oldie here as part of an effort to look ahead to the coming reauthorization debate/fracas. Because […]

April 3, 2013

Business

Congress discusses expanded oil and gas drilling as source of transportation funding

With talks in Congress over how to raise transportation funding at a standstill, some lawmakers have voiced their opinion that the answer is oil, according to our sister publication Better Roads. Speaker of the House John Boehner recently called revenues for infrastructure improvements via oil and gas drilling expansions a “natural link.” But some lobbyists […]

March 29, 2013

Roadbuilding

Legislators look to expanded drilling for transportation funding

Since a gas tax seems to be an unlikely source of transportation funding, some legislators are looking to oil. In fact, Speaker John Boehner has called revenues for infrastructure improvements via oil and gas drilling expansions a “natural link,” according to Politico. However, some lobbyists are concerned that expanded drilling won’t bring in enough money […]

March 27, 2013