Tag: highway funding

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Governors, mayors, industry push for long-term transport plan

American jobs, the economy, and global competitiveness are at stake without a modern transportation network, a panel representing U.S. governors, mayors and manufacturers told Congress Tuesday, testifying in the year’s first hearing on a new highway bill.

January 15, 2014

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Highway funding round-up: Pay now, or pay later?

A TV commercial from the early 1980s had a tagline that, as kids today would say, ‘went viral’: “You can pay me now, or pay me later.” Does the slogan hold for highway funding? It does, in that there’s a penalty for neglect – but the inconvenient truth is we’re paying now, and we’ll have to keep paying later.

December 12, 2013

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Freight panel ‘kicks the can’ on funding decisions

A House panel that spent six months assessing the nation’s freight transportation needs has unanimously decided the U.S. should spend more, but made no specific recommendations as to where any funding increase should come from.

October 30, 2013

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Is 11 cents a mile for roads fair?

A federal policy analysis agency thinks you should be paying more for highways and perhaps should be doing so by the mile rather than by the gallon. In a new report, the U.S. Government Accountability Agency suggested that Congress consider a pilot program to test the viability of mileage-based fees for commercial trucks as well as […]

January 9, 2013