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Bill CramerJuly 7, 2015
Bob Redding and Gregory LeFrois are Co-Chief Meeting Organizers for IBTTA’s 2015 Summit on All-Electronic Tolling, Managed Lanes & Interoperability, July 12-14 in Miami, Florida. In this interview with Tolling Points, they talk about the...
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Bill CramerJuly 2, 2015
With Americans taking to the roads for the Fourth of July weekend, IBTTA’s 2015 Report on Tolling in the U.S. shows more and more of us relying on toll roads to get where we’re going.
Drivers took 5.7 billion trips last year on toll roads in 34...
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Bill CramerJune 30, 2015
The fire chief in Barneys River, Nova Scotia has the best reason of all to support tolls along his local highway.
He’s sick of putting up roadside crosses to mark the spots where drivers have died in highway collisions.
“Bad memories start coming...
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Bill CramerJune 23, 2015
If you were running a business that needed the next three years of income to meet its current financial obligations, you would want to pull in some new revenue in a hurry.
But that’s the state of affairs that Sarah Puro, principal analyst with the...
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Bill CramerJune 17, 2015
After the E-470 Public Highway Authority in Aurora, Colorado saw its energy costs jump 33% between 2002 and 2006, it began searching for a more affordable, reliable way to power its operations.
The result was a network of solar-electric (...
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Bill CramerJune 9, 2015
At IBTTA’s Transportation Finance and Road Usage Charging Conference in April, Sarah Swensson King with Transportation Corridors Agencies took top honors in the association’s first-ever Transportation Idol contest. In this interview with Tolling...
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Bill CramerJune 4, 2015
How can anyone claim that gas taxes fund America’s highways when taxpayers pay $600 per household to keep the system running each year?
That’s the provocative question that emerges from Who Pays for Roads, a report released last month by the U.S....
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Bill CramerJune 2, 2015
Sometimes, the process of building influence begins with collecting business cards. That was just one of the gains that IBTTA Past President Rob Horr, Executive Director of the Thousand Islands Bridge Authority, took away from the association’s...
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Bill CramerMay 27, 2015
A news release last week from the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) contains good news for anyone who depends on traffic and revenue forecasts to anticipate future income.
It all boils down to a single keyword: GROWTH.
By just about any...
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Bill CramerMay 21, 2015
It was a special treat to see Rep. Earl Blumenauer in full bicycling gear last month, during the opening session of IBTTA’s Transportation Finance and Road Usage Charging Conference.
Meeting in Portland, the city where he served as city commissioner...
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