Former DOT Chief to Congress: Raise Gas Tax 10¢, Index it
WASHINGTON — A way for Congress to ensure long-term funding for the country's highway system would be to approve a 10-cent gas tax increase and index the tax to inflation, former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told Transport Topics May 13.
May 13, 2015Panel Reports Transportation Funding Bill with HOS Provision to Full House
WASHINGTON — The House Appropriations Committee on May 13 voted 30-21 to send a fiscal 2016 transportation funding bill to the House floor after defeating a Democratic attempt to remove a provision that would add new requirements to a study on an hours of service rule for truckers.
May 13, 2015Labor Group Presses Congress to Fund Long-Term Highway Plan, Joins ‘Advocacy Day’
WASHINGTON — To kick off Infrastructure Week’s “advocacy day” on May 13, the president of the Laborers’ International Union of North America called on lawmakers to advance a long-term measure that improves the country’s aging infrastructure.
May 13, 2015ATA-led Coalition Accuses Regulators of Skewing Restart Study
American Trucking Associations and a coalition of more than 100 industry stakeholders have asked members of the House Appropriations Committee to include legislative provisions that would block federal regulators from skewing the results of their hours of service restart study.
May 13, 2015Virginia Says P3 Partnerships are Working, and the State Wants More
ARLINGTON, Va. — Virginia celebrated 20 years of public-private partnerships for infrastructure, recommended them to other states and is looking for a P3 arrangement to improve Interstate 66, which runs from Washington, D.C., to the west.
May 12, 2015Va. Gov. McAuliffe Says Congressional Inaction Imperils Road Projects
ARLINGTON, Va. — Virginia’s governor said his state will soon have to begin shutting down transportation improvement projects if Congress does not fund and reauthorize the federal Highway Trust Fund before the end of this month.
May 12, 2015Sen. Fischer Proposes Infrastructure Bank Legislation
With less than two weeks before funding authority for transportation projects expires, Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) on May 12 introduced legislation that would establish an infrastructure bank.
May 12, 2015Policymakers, Financiers Agree on Infrastructure Crisis, but Not on Funding Mechanisms
WASHINGTON — Policymakers and Wall Street veterans made pleas May 11 for greater investment in the nation’s infrastructure but acknowledged the stumbling block is still the same — how to pay for it.
May 11, 2015P3s See Federal Inaction as Elevating Their Importance
WASHINGTON — The biggest challenges facing infrastructure public-private partnership proposals are in persuading public officials and taxpayers to accept some level of financial and possibly environmental risk, and in convincing public employees they won’t lose their jobs, a panel of P3 supporters said at a May 11 “Infrastructure Week” event.
May 11, 2015Top T&I Dems Request Hearing on Long-Term Highway Bill
The top two Democrats on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee are pressing the panel’s chairman and the chamber’s top tax policy authorizer to schedule a joint hearing very soon that focuses on a long-term highway bill.
May 11, 2015