Recent Chicago Parking Audit Spells Bad News for Motorists (and Every Other Resident)

By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director This post originally appeared as NMA E-Newsletter #708 from August 2022. If you would like to subscribe to the newsletter, a weekly one-topic look at a motorist issue, click here. As of 2022, 61 years are left on the 75-year parking meter lease now held by the Chicago Parking Meters […]
Recent Chicago Parking Audit Spells Bad News for Motorists (and Every Other Resident): NMA E-Newsletter #708

As of 2022, 61 years are left on the 75-year parking meter lease now held by the Chicago Parking Meters LLC. A recent city audit stated that the private company had already recouped its entire $1.16 billion investment plus $502.5 million more. According to a recent Chicago Sun-Times article, Chicago parking meter revenue is back […]
Alliance For Toll-Free Interstates Update–Spring 2022

Editor’s Note: ATFI is one of our partners and it releases a quarterly newsletter, which we promote by posting it here. With people returning to work and with travelling back in full swing, the need for improved infrastructure in the United States has remained a top priority for politicians and citizens alike. Officials from Pennsylvania […]
ATFI Letter: Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework and Opposition to Tolling

Editor’s Note: This letter was sent this week to US Senate Leaders. It if from the Alliance for Toll Free Interstates of which the National Motorists Association is a member. Dear Senators Schumer and McConnell: The Alliance for Toll-Free Interstates (ATFI) is a growing alliance of individuals, businesses and organizations advocating for long-term, sustainable, efficient, […]
ATFI Letter to President Biden and Secretary Buttigieg on the American Jobs Plan and Tolling in Infrastructure

Editor’s Note: The National Motorists Association supports the Alliance for Toll-Free Interstates and this letter to our nation’s leaders on tolling in America. Dear President Biden and Secretary Buttigieg: The Alliance for Toll-Free Interstates (ATFI) is a growing alliance of individuals, businesses and organizations advocating for long-term, sustainable, efficient, equitable, and sensible highway infrastructure funding […]
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 […]
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 […]
A State Should Never Lease Its Roads

Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in October 2020 as an NMA E-Newsletter #614. If you would like to receive our one-topic weekly E-Newsletter, join the NMA today. Reason Foundation’s Transportation Guru Robert Poole released a study in August of how nine states could financially benefit if they were to lease their toll road systems to […]
Tolls in America—a New Reality?

Private toll companies and state toll agencies have run up against a funding crisis just like the rest of the country. As mentioned in the last Tolling in America blog, if private toll companies are a part of a PPP or Public-Private Partnership, they might bail (as has been done before) if the money they […]
Is it Really Tough Times for Toll Roads Ahead?

By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director The website Chief Investment Officer posted in June a lament for how tough it is for toll roads right now. Here’s a quote, “The typically stable asset class has been hit as traffic levels have dropped 40 percent to 85 percent globally, S&P analysts say.” So the website tells […]