Entries from Cascadia Prospectus tagged with 'congestion pricing'
SR 520 Funding Gap Now Pegged At $2.38 Billion
At a meeting in Seattle last week, lawmakers heard that the funding gap for replacing the storm- and seismically-vulnerable, crowded four-lane SR 520 bridge across Lake Washington can be shaved from $2.6 billion to $2.38 billion through a sales tax...
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WashDOT's Paula Hammond: Tolled Express Lanes Key
Corridor-length Approach Is Favored; I-405/SR 167 Seen As Model Reporter Newspapers covers East and South King County, and has produced a lengthy special section - also available online - delving into the region's surface transportation challenges. In an in interview...
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Crosscut: Time To Go "All In" On Tolls
Yesterday in Crosscut, the Northwest online daily journal of politics and public policy, I published a piece titled "Time to Go 'All In' On Tolls." It starts this way: The four-lane Evergreen Point Floating Bridge across Lake Washington on State Route...
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Four Steps To A Nationwide Vehicle Mileage Tax
Editor's Note: Cascadia Prospectus is pleased to welcome as a contributor Bern Grush, chief scientist and founder of SkyMeter Corp., who in periodic posts will share insights on road user charging technology and other aspects of surface transportation and system...
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Team Obama Rejects Gas Tax Hike; Boosting User Fee Prospects
Reuters reports that U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told a senate committee the administration of President Barack Obama will not sign off on any hike in the increasingly ineffective federal gas tax, though Congress may propose that. LaHood's declaration signaled...
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Include I-205 In I-5 Columbia Crossing Mobility Council Planning
Columbia River Crossing is the $4.2 billion project to replace two old, crowded and dangerous bridges connecting Washington and Oregon on Interstate 5 (pictured below left, courtesy of KATU-TV Portland). The old structures (one goes northbound-only, the other southbound) are...
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LaHood, Obama, Congress Face Transportation Challenges
President-elect Barack Obama Friday is to name retiring Illinois Congressman Ray LaHood the next U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary. Though he has served on the House Transportation Committee, moderate Republican LaHood's upside is his well established role as a bipartisan...
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Obama's DOT Pick To Face Surface Transportation Crisis
The Washington Post paints an accurate picture of the surface transportation funding and financing crisis that will confront President-elect Barack Obama (below at right), Congress, and Obama's pick to head the U.S. Department of Transportation. As roads and bridges are...
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Try This On: Variable Tolls For SR 520 And I-90 In 2010
The State Route 520 Tolling Implementation Committee's "November Scenario Evaluation" document released yesterday shows that the most robust regional financing for replacing the dangerously sub-par 520 bridge comes from time-variable tolling on it starting in 2010 and tolling the parallel...
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HOT Lanes Advance In Houston On I-10 "Katy Freeway"
Working with federal, state and regional partners, the Harris County Tollway Authority this fall will begin the final stages of implementing a plan for a total of four fully-operational High Occupancy and Toll (HOT) lanes, on both sides of a...
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Highway Congestion Pricing Advances On West Coast
Proposals for highway congestion pricing and electronic tolling advanced this week in the San Francisco Bay Area, metro Portland and Seattle-Puget Sound. Here's a rundown. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that in the Bay Area, the Municipal Transportation Commission yesterday...
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Steady Progress On Congestion Pricing, Tolling
Suppose electricity was free, even at hours of peak usage. Think your power supply would be reliable, then? Exactly. Now apply the same common-sense approach to highway capacity. Or consider the Environmental Defense Fund's Transportation Director Michael Replogle, who writes...
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Gov. Kulongoski Eyes Congestion Pricing In Metro Portland
In a recent speech to the Oregon Environmental Council's Business Forum, Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski (below, right) said the transportation plan he'll present to the 2009 state legislature will likely accent congestion pricing. It could also include a statewide low-carbon...
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Mobility 2.0 For Puget Sound
With the recent meltdown of the New York City cordon pricing plan, Puget Sound is moving to the forefront of innovative transportation planning -- if our region can get its act together. The success of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, adoption...
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Washington Legislature Advances Tolling For Puget Sound
In its election year "short session" concluded last week, the Washington state legislature took several important, albeit partial steps to advance tolling, commuter rail, passenger-only ferries and innovative transportation funding partnerships with non-government entities. Let's review some key '08 transportation...
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Tolling, Finance Innovation Vital For Infrastructure Growth
Implemented regionally, tolling and congestion pricing will be the key that unlocks the door to more efficient use of major highways in Puget Sound. Incentives for more telecommuting, carpooling, vanpooling and off-peak travel will grow substantially, as tolls and especially...
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Metro Portland, The I-5 Bridge Tolls For Thee
Have you ever seen a whole lot more of the mighty Columbia River and Portland's skyline than you really wanted to, because you were crawling on Interstate 5? C'mon, raise your hands. Well, good news. The government is here to...
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Congestion Pricing, Tolls Loom For Puget Sound
With the defeat by Puget Sound taxpayers of a multi-billion-dollar roads and transit ballot measure Nov. 6, momentum is growing for tolling and congestion pricing to help ease traffic congestion in the Seattle region, as this news and opinion round-up...
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