Last week the Rhode Island House Finance Committee approved a plan to create a $28 million transportation infrastructure fund. Beginning July 1, the proposed budget will divert money from the state’s general fund, [...]
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has moved up a transportation sales tax ballot measure from its originally scheduled November 2014 election to this August. The measure proposes a three-fourths-cents state sales tax increase in order [...]
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is considering options for the upcoming 2015-2017 budget request that will provide a long-term solution to the state’s transportation funding shortfall. Currently the department is projecting a shortfall [...]
On Monday Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed the FY 2015 Transportation Bill, which contains $685.7 million in transportation infrastructure funding. This represents the largest investment ever made in the state’s transportation infrastructure. Strategic [...]
The North Carolina Senate Republicans have released a budget proposal that includes several measures to increase available transportation funding in the state. These include: Raising the maximum tax that can be charged for [...]
In an 86-7 vote on Wednesday, the Ohio House passed legislation to toll the Brent Spence Bridge, which connects Covington, Ky. and Cincinnati, to raise revenues to make needed repairs to the structure. [...]
Georgia’s Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) is planning to sell $300 million in revenue bonds on June 5 in order to fund capital improvements and refinance short-term loans. Capital improvements include $100 [...]
Gov. Maggie Hassan signed legislation to raise the New Hampshire gasoline and diesel fuel taxes by four cents per gallon, the first increase in 23 years. The tax will go into effect July [...]
Last week the San Francisco Board of Supervisors introduced a $500 million general-obligation transportation bond (GO Bond) for the November ballot. This bond is one of three measures introduced last week as part [...]
A report, prepared for the Michigan Environmental Council by the Sustainable Mobility & Accessibility Research & Transformation (SMART) at the University of Michigan, states that fuel efficient vehicles are leading to a decline [...]
