More Articles for Highway Trust Fund
Domino 1.
There is a sense of inevitability about this. It's not a real surprise, and the next falling domino probably won't be either.Tennessee will stop work on its portion of I-69 because the state can't afford the cost.
Writing a guest column ... Read More...
Pushing the toll option
The International Bridge Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA) is launching what it calls an "aggressive" 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 ... Read More...
Fifty-state ‘Vehicle Miles Traveled’ tax/fee/charge study proposed
Will your vehicle one day feel like a taxi cab?
Oregon Democrat representative Earl Blumenauer has introduced legislation that would fund a 50-state Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) pilot program to examine a new source of highway funding. The legislation calls on the ... Read More...
Whispering the T Word
TAX!
Nothing like shouting a three-letter word ending in X to get your attention. But no, we’re not talking income tax.
The gas tax is back on a table in Washington. The 18.3 cents a gallon tax, un-indexed and unchanged in almost ... Read More...
Kirk Landers, Editor Emeritus
One More Letter to Write
By Kirk Landers
With another bitterly contentious election under our belts, most Americans would like to live in a world without politicians and robocalls and super PACs for at least a little while. But for people in ... Read More...
Lattatudes
Plays Well With Others
By John Latta
This is a little bit of a tightrope act.
jlatta@randallreilly.com
I am writing this before the election. Why? So that I don’t let election results skew or tilt what I write just a tiny bit to ... Read More...
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 ... Read More...
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.
So ... Read More...
RoadWorks
Inside the highway and bridge industries
Stuck in Slow
By John Latta
There has been no “bump” yet from the new surface transportation legislation, MAP-21, says Alison Premo Black, American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) senior economist and policy VP. At ARTBA’s ... Read More...
Kirk Landers, Editor Emeritus
Passing a Kidney Stone
kirk.landers@att.net
“A tie,” football coach Vince Lombardi is said to have famously said, “is like kissing your sister.”
If we accept this wisdom from the Green Bay Packers legend, it follows that the recently enacted federal transportation bill ... Read More...
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 ... Read More...
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 ... Read More...
