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Roadbuilding
Proposed bill would raise federal gas tax by $0.15 for highway funding
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) introduced into the House on Wednesday a bill that would nearly double federal fuel taxes as a means of funding highways, according to a report from our sister site Overdrive. Blumenauer said the $0.15-per-gallon increase would be a short-term option to make up for shortfalls in the dwindling Highway Trust Fund [âŚ]
December 5, 2013
Business
Lawmakers, experts discuss solutions, stress urgent need for stable, increased highway funding
Over half of the highway miles traveled in the United States are on roads in less than good condition, said Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairman of the Senate Environmental & Public Works Committee. She spoke at the Infrastructure for the Future conference Thursday in Washington, D.C., where experts tied the pressing need for road and [âŚ]
November 22, 2013
Business
Bill calls for the elimination of federal transportation funding
While most are trying to figure out a way to free up more federal funding for transportation, two Congressmen have introduced a bill that would cut it altogether. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rep. Tom Graves (R-Georgia) have filed the Transportation Empowerment Act (TEA), according to our sister site Better Roads. The bill calls for [âŚ]
November 18, 2013
Roadbuilding
5 Myths of Highway Tolling
With reauthorization less than a year away, itâs time for lawmakers to begin considering funding options that will bring in revenue for the nationâs 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 [âŚ]
October 30, 2013
Roadbuilding
Study proposes implementing per-mile tolls on U.S. interstate system
In an attempt to provide a solution to Americaâs 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, âInterstate 2.0: Modernizing the [âŚ]
September 13, 2013
Roadbuilding
Itâs a Forest/Trees Thing
Just like cable TV and cell phones, youâre paying for your highways and bridges, too, and there may be equally frustrating performance issues in the not too distant future.
June 5, 2013
Roadbuilding
Letâs Mess with Taxes
Something had to give. People want better roads and less congestion. So politicians promise to deliver. But people donât want to pay more for their better roads. So politicians promise to deliver them at no extra cost. Result: stalemate, with deteriorating roads and increasing congestion. Around and around we go, stuck uncomfortably between Scylla and [âŚ]
April 9, 2013
Roadbuilding
Highway Trust Fund $365.5 billion in debt by 2036 â AED report
Highway Trust Fund (HTF) shortfall will be in the coming decades. The report, conducted for the Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) by William and Mary Universityâs Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy, forecasts that over the next 23 years the Highway Trust Fund will run up a $365.5 billion deficit. The number may be new but [âŚ]
February 22, 2013
Roadbuilding
The John Delaney and Bill Clinton Plan for transportation infrastructure
Weâve heard for years now that the private sector has money that is just waiting to be invested in our future transportation infrastructure. And itâs still waiting. Now comes a hugely-successful private sector businessman turned Congressman with an idea. Some of it borrowed from Bill Clinton. Maryland Congressman John Delaney, a self-made multi-millionaire financier, has said he [âŚ]
February 22, 2013
Roadbuilding
Domino 1.
There is a sense of inevitability about this. Itâs not a real surprise, and the next falling domino probably wonât be either.Tennessee will stop work on its portion of I-69 because the state canât afford the cost. Writing a guest column in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, TDOT commissioner John Schroer says the state has already invested [âŚ]
January 15, 2013
Roadbuilding
Pushing the toll option
The International Bridge Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA) is launching what it calls an âaggressiveâ campaign to show us the benefits of tolling AND suggesting more of it. With highway infrastructure in such abysmal shape, tolling has to be on everyoneâs lips, even if they speak behind closed doors. After all, it takes money from [âŚ]
January 10, 2013
Roadbuilding
Outlook 2013
Agencies intend to take advantage of MAP-21 reforms; infrastructure damage to get worse with lack of funding.
January 10, 2013
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