Tag: Highway Trust Fund: Page 36

Roadbuilding

Lattatudes

Don’t modify transportation issue bipartisanship by adding a “now and then” to it.

November 13, 2012

Roadbuilding

So, how are you guys splitting the tab?

It’s not as if everyone sat around the table looking the other way when the waiter came with the bill. We know the size of the bill to fund what we must do for our transportation infrastructure and we know Johnny Washington isn’t generously reaching all the way down into his pockets. We’ve heard the […]

November 6, 2012

Roadbuilding

For whom the toll bills

We know that one of the key reasons that raising the gas tax was never considered an option as legislators (read: re-electable politicians) knew that the public doesn't trust them to use additional tax money purely for highways and bridges,We know that one of the key reasons that raising the gas tax was never considered an option as legislators (read: re-electable politicians) knew that the public doesn't trust them to use additional tax money purely for highways and bridges,We know that one of the key reasons that raising the gas tax was never considered an option as legislators (read: re-electable politicians) knew that the public doesn't trust them to use additional tax money purely for highways and bridges,We know that one of the key reasons that raising the gas tax was never considered an option as legislators (read: re-electable politicians) knew that the public doesn't trust them to use additional tax money purely for highways and bridges,We know that one of the key reasons that raising the gas tax was never considered an option as legislators (read: re-electable politicians) knew that the public doesn't trust them to use additional tax money purely for highways and bridges,We know that one of the key reasons that raising the gas tax was never considered an option as legislators (read: re-electable politicians) knew that the public doesn't trust them to use additional tax money purely for highways and bridges,We know that one of the key reasons that raising the gas tax was never considered an option as legislators (read: re-electable politicians) knew that the public doesn't trust them to use additional tax money purely for highways and bridges

October 9, 2012

Roadbuilding

RoadWorks

There has been no “bump” yet from the new surface transportation legislation, MAP 21, says one expert.

October 9, 2012

Construction Equipment

Final Word

Clean up transportation politics with earmarks   By Kirk Landers   While the citizenry and media of the United States focused on election polls and campaign rumors last summer, the U.S. Department of Transportation quietly announced that more than $470 million in unobligated earmark funds was being released to the states for investment in transportation […]

October 4, 2012

Roadbuilding

Kirk Landers, Editor Emeritus

MAP-21 is not progress at all.

August 5, 2012

Business

Drive Now, Pay Later.

Interesting, basic approach to the argument for borrowing to build/maintain/repair our transportation infrastructure in the New York Times. Written by a Cornell University economics professor, Robert H. Frank. Agree or disagree he makes a fairly basic argument. And clarity from any point of view in this debate is actually quite refreshing. May we regress to […]

June 5, 2012

Safety

Mica & Duncan statements from surface transportation bill conference

U.S. Rep. John L. Mica (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. (R-Tenn.) ,chairman of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee, released statements following the May 8 Surface Transportation Bill Conference Meeting. Their official statements follow: Chairman Mica Statement “We all share a commitment to build our […]

May 8, 2012

Roadbuilding

About the small print Congressman

Next Monday, April 16, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is back in D.C. after a well-deserved (sic) break to consider finalizing a reauthorization bill. There’s not a whole lot of optimism here. The Senate’s two-year bill is waiting in the wings but Republicans in the House are unlikely to go for it, again. They […]

April 11, 2012

Roadbuilding

Lattatudes

If a bill squeaks through, there needs to be a lot of work done to ensure that the reforms are implemented as quickly as possible.

April 6, 2012

Roadbuilding

Shame

Last Friday reauthorization was extended for the ninth time, this time for 90 days. You know what I feel about it. So does Ezra Klein apparently. “On Friday, President Obama signed the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2012. Odds are you didn’t hear about it. There wasn’t a signing ceremony in the Rose Garden, and […]

April 4, 2012

Roadbuilding

A bitter little House whine

“I can’t, it’s too hard.” There are a lot of ideographic catch phrases we associate with Americans. This isn’t one of them. I don’t believe George Washington or Admiral Farragut or John Paul Jones or Abraham Lincoln ever said it. For that matter I don’t suppose Muhammad Ali or Tim Tebow ever did either.But it […]

March 30, 2012