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Tolling Points - By Bill Cramer

Truckers’ Woes Make the Case for States’ Flexibility
Bill CramerFebruary 24, 2014
Stories
With recent comments that identified the trucking industry as one of the chief beneficiaries of a well-financed highway system, U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) opened one of the most powerful arguments for giving states greater flexibility to fund... Read More
The IBTTA Legislative Summit: Three Questions to Ask Your Elected Officials
Bill CramerFebruary 18, 2014
With IBTTA’s Summit on Legislation, Policy, and Infrastructure Finance less than a month away, and the highway reauthorization debate well under way, it’s a good time to think about the questions you will want to ask your elected officials the next... Read More
Counting Down to Year Zero: Distributors Join the Highway Debate
Bill CramerFebruary 14, 2014
A new front is opening up in the transportation reauthorization debate, with road users weighing in on the hardship they’ll face if the Highway Trust Fund runs out of money. Look no farther than Associated Equipment Distributors (AED), an... Read More
All-Electronic Tolling on the Iconic Golden Gate Bridge
Bill CramerFebruary 3, 2014
Stories
When San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge completed its transition to All-Electronic Tolling (AET) in March 2013, one of the most important challenges was to minimize any negative effects for the people who’d been the human face of the manual tolling... Read More
The Giant Begins to Stir
Bill CramerJanuary 31, 2014
It would be a bit premature to conclude from the latest Pew Research poll that the public opinion giant is waking up to the urgency of the transportation infrastructure crisis. But the poll, released early this week ahead of President Obama’s State... Read More
Remove Barriers to Tolling, IBTTA Tells U.S. House Committee
Bill CramerJanuary 16, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Congress should put a full range of transportation funding options on the table by removing barriers to tolling and pricing, IBTTA told the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee at a January 14 hearing. In... Read More
Heiligenstein Ushers In the Year of Customer Service
Bill CramerJanuary 9, 2014
The Year of Customer Service. It’s exactly the theme you would expect from IBTTA’s 2014 President, Mike Heiligenstein, after his 10 years at the helm of the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority (CTRMA) and 23 years in public service. Every... Read More
Two House Bills Together Are Greater Than the Sum of the Parts
Bill CramerDecember 5, 2013
Of the two House bills Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) introduced earlier this week, the proposal to raise the gas tax and index it to inflation has received by far the most attention. But the Road Usage Fee Pilot Program Act of 2013 is the measure that... Read More
Putting the Highway Funding Crisis on Ice
Bill CramerNovember 22, 2013
At a September forum organized by the Reason Foundation, IBTTA Executive Director and CEO Patrick Jones came up with another great metaphor to explain the roots of the highway funding crisis.   One of the most persistent myths about tolling is that... Read More
Tolling Heralds a Highway Financing Renaissance
Bill CramerNovember 14, 2013
The renaissance is about to begin. And tolling is leading the way.That’s the optimistic, yet realistic message in an IBTTA guest post published earlier this week by the InfrastructureUSA blog, an influential website that advocates to restore America... Read More

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