Tolling Points - By all
Robert W. Poole, Jr., Reason FoundationMarch 27, 2014
The Interstate highway system is wearing out. Over the next two decades, nearly all of its 47,000 miles will have to be rebuilt, to make it serviceable for another 50+ years. In addition, several hundred major interchanges are horrible bottlenecks...
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Bill CramerMarch 26, 2014
As long as there have been public roadways, it's been necessary to educate citizens about the need for funding road construction and upkeep.
After all, no matter what the mechanism for obtaining infrastructure funding, ultimately it comes from the...
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Wanda KlaymanMarch 23, 2014
If you haven’t renewed your IBTTA membership, you’re a very short time away from missing one of the most important deadlines of the year.
As long as you renew by March 31, your organization will retain all the benefits of being a part of the only...
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Bill CramerMarch 18, 2014
IBTTA kicks off its monthly Twitter Chat series with special guest Lloyd Brown, Communications Director with the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). Join us for an hour of fast-paced discussion, debate, and...
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Bill CramerMarch 11, 2014
When IBTTA’s Summit on Legislation, Policy and Infrastructure Finance opened in Washington, DC Monday morning, panelists and participants had a stark reality to confront.
Federal transportation funding under MAP-21 expires in 205 days.
Tolling...
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Bill CramerMarch 5, 2014
With just under a week to go before IBTTA’s Summit on Legislation, Policy, and Infrastructure Finance, the voices are coming in from every corner of the United States: our prosperity depends on highway infrastructure, infrastructure depends on...
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Bill CramerFebruary 24, 2014
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...
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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...
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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...
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Bill CramerFebruary 3, 2014
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...
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