Tag: infrastructure funding

Are State DOT Rockfall Projects Money Pits?

Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared as NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #630, emailed in February 2021. If you would like to receive the weekly newsletter, register today at the NMA! Have you ever wondered how much it costs to mitigate rockfalls on state highways and interstates? The bigger question, perhaps, is the expense worth it? Late […]

Long-term Implications of Working from Home

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared as NMA E-Newsletter #624. If you would like to receive the weekly newsletter via email, subscribe today! You might not think telecommuting is a motorist issue, but you’re mistaken. Recently, various news outlets stated that almost half of the 160 million American workers commute from home due to the pandemic. Even […]

Alliance for Toll-Free Interstates Spring 2021 Update

At the one-year anniversary of COVID-19’s official arrival in the United States, state governments face unprecedented budget shortfalls as they search for ways to raise revenues for transportation projects in the absence of the proper funds. The pandemic has kept people off of roads across the country, and transportation departments from Pennsylvania to Wyoming are […]

Pennsylvania Goes Tollistic

Editor’s Note: After we posted this Tolling in America Blog, Car and Driver posted an article with a headline question: Can You Name the World’s Most Expensive Toll Road? and guess what? It is the great state of Pennsylvania!    Pennsylvania’s Department of Transportation decided this month to place tolls on nine bridges located on […]

Are State DOT Rockfall Projects Money Pits?: NMA E-Newsletter #630

Have you ever wondered how much it costs to mitigate rockfalls on state highways and interstates? The bigger question, perhaps, is the expense worth it? Late last year, NorthJersey.com posted an interesting article about rockfall project expenses in the state. Even though they did not come out and say it, it seems some rockfall projects […]

Alliance for Toll-Free Interstates Winter 2020/2021 Update

“We’ve gotten precious little help from the federal government,” Pennsylvania State Representative Tim Hennessey recently said as he touted his support for a new network of tolls on the commonwealth’s major bridges. States are pleading for more federal help as our nation continues to work on rebounding from the crippling economic effects of the COVID-19 […]

Motorists Vote 2020: Arkansas Ballot Question 1 Part 2

By Thomas Beckett, NMA Arkansas Member Earlier this year, I wrote about Issue 1 that will appear on the Arkansas November 3, 2020, ballot. If passed, the state would make the temporary half-cent sales tax set to expire in 2023 permanent. The tax’s initial purpose was to fund bonds issued for highway improvements, which consisted […]