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What Is It About A Mileage Tax Obama Doesn’t Understand?

_{February 10, 2009
Cascadia}

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Barack Obama
national surface transportation revenue commission
Oregon
ray lahood
robert gibbs
vehicle miles traveled tax
vmt tax
WASHINGTON

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House Bill Supports New Passenger Ferries, Sets One Aside for Northwest Washington

(Feb. 6, 2009–Bellingham, Wash.) A new bill in Olympia would direct the state Department of Transportation to buy five passenger-only ferries, and it would set aside one of them for service in Northwest Washington. The bill, proposed by Rep. Doug Ericksen, R-Ferndale, would set up the framework for spending $25 million in federal stimulus money for transit to buy high-speed passenger boats. Advocates say that brings their effort to establish a route between Friday Harbor and Bellingham closer to reality. “If the feds come in with the boat, then all of a sudden the economics of the thing start looking pretty positive,” said Bruce Agnew, program director at the Seattle-based Cascadia Center, which has studied passenger ferry routes here. He’s also a member of the Farmhouse Gang, an informal group of leaders that helped kick-start the bus route between Bellingham and Mount Vernon and now wants the ferry service. More here.

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Governors Envision Eco-friendly Fuels At I-5 Rest Stops

Discussion Brief: “Greening The Highway From Baja California To British Columbia,” Cascadia Center For Regional Development, September, 2007 Cascadia Center’s September, 2007 “Greening The Highway” symposium overview and TVW video links Cascadia Center’s …

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