Tag: user fee

Roadbuilding
DOL and the aggregates industry talk roads, jobs, and safety
Collaboration with the aggregates industry regarding challenges facing it and the nation was the focus of an Oct. 20 roundtable convened by Secretary of Labor Tom Perez, with input from Assistant Secretary of Labor Joe Main. The roundtable included members of the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA), eight state association executives, and eight […]
November 5, 2014
Roadbuilding
Move over gas tax: California could move to VMT fee
California is considering switching from a state gas tax to a vehicle-miles-traveled (VMT) fee, our sister site Overdrive reports. The state’s Senate approved SB 1077 this month. The legislation would require the California Transportation Agency (CTA) to create a voluntary user fee pilot program by 2016, but CTA would not be allowed to collect fees. […]
June 14, 2014
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Roadbuilding
Transportation Infrastructure Funding: Efficiency is necessary but not sufficient
It’s a case of on the one hand/on the other hand. New Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx is saying that his department is “working to improve the efficiency and performance of our existing transportation system” and is “doing so in an era when we must work harder than ever to stretch our transportation dollar.” He […]
July 26, 2013
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Roadbuilding
Your Swine Airlines flight is ready for departure
This is a fact: Gas taxes go up. All across the country they go up. Despite what you might think from listening to Washington politicians, they do go up. This week they go up. And they go up for a variety of reasons. But they go up. For politicians elected to national office to dig […]
July 1, 2013
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Roadbuilding
Kirk Landers, Editor Emeritus
Here is the letter I sent to my senators and representatives.
December 1, 2012
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Roadbuilding
Kirk Landers: Editor Emeritus
As we give thanks to the industry advocates who were able to get Congress to designate the fuel tax as a pure user fee, let us also resolve to protect his status with every future transportation bill, no matter how disappointing it is in every other regard.
September 7, 2012
kirk.landers@att.net
Roadbuilding
Kirk Landers — Leadership, please.
Very few of these Representatives and Senators actually believe the swill they are selling, and none of us should. The fuel tax is a user fee. You pay for what you get, and you get what you pay for. And if we don’t start paying more for our roads, we are going to get a lot less.
October 1, 2009
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