Entries from Cascadia Prospectus tagged with 'transportation funding'
Mileage Tax Gets Boost From Peters, Mineta Institute
Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation under George W. Bush, Mary Peters recently told the Austin-San Antonio Corridor Growth Summit that the country needs to move toward a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax to replace the failing gas tax....
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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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First, A Patch-up For Expiring Fed. Transpo Bill
Among the pressing legislative priorities facing Congress this autumn -- besides the headline-grabbing health care and climate change bills -- is an extension of the federal surface transportation program. The program authority expires on September 30 and its renewal is...
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No Federal Bailout: States, Regions Confront Transpo Funding Woes
When Congress passes a new $450 billion six-year surface transportation reauthorization sometime in the next 18 months or so, it would directly yield $90 billion per annum, split nationwide over its term. That probably sounds like a lot of money,...
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State Rep. Carlyle: New Era Of Transpo Funding, Strategy Looms
State Rep. Reuven Carlyle (D-36th) makes some key points about the future of state and regional transportation funding in a Ballard News-Tribune op-ed. After stressing funding shortfalls facing King County Metro's bus service and declining gas tax revenues for road...
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Will Congress Help Pave The Way For A Vehicle Mileage Tax?
Article as published in Crosscut During his successful campaign for the presidency, Barack Obama embraced the cause of surface transportation, arguing with gusto for improvements to inter-city high speed rail, for research and development to advance the mainstream adoption of...
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A Stimulus For States and Regions To Own Surface Transportation
The much-hyped federal economic stimulus package isn't looking like it will do all that much for surface transportation. The New York Times reports that the House stimulus bill contains a scant $30 billion for roads and bridges and $10 billion...
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Gregoire: Tolling "Very Likely" For New Deep Bored Tunnel
In an interview with Ross Reynolds on KUOW-FM - MP3 audio file here - Washington Governor Chris Gregoire said it was "very likely" that tolling would be applied to the new deep bored tunnel planned to replace the seismically vulnerable...
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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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Beyond The Gas Tax
"We must respond to the reality that the gas tax, the traditional source of revenue for transportation investments at both the state and federal level, is not expected to keep pace with transportation needs in the future." With these words,Â...
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Transportation Transformation Group Challenges Status Quo
There's been growing concern about the state of the nation's transportation infrastructure, as evidenced by a proliferation of private sector initiatives to influence policy. This includes the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's "Let's Rebuild America" campaign; the Rockefeller Foundation-supported Building America's...
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Private Capital Eyed For Transit, Roads
Drawing from $19.9 billion in Prop. 1B voter-appproved bonding authority, a California commission has allocated $3 billion to help fund 79 road, rail, bridge, transit and other transportation projects. The bottom line of this summary shows the projects will cost...
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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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