Business professionals and public officials are once again coming together this summer to share best practices, playbook secrets and other keys to success in advancing legislative and ballot initiatives that boost transportation infrastructure [...]
Louisiana lawmakers are preparing a proposal to increase the state gas tax by up to 17 cents-per-gallon, which would generate an additional $500 million annually in transportation funding. The state legislature convenes April [...]
National gasoline sales rose 2.2 percent from January through November 2016 when compared to the same time frame in 2015, according to a March 9 updated report from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The [...]
While Minnesota ranks eighth highest on highway spending per capita and 18th highest on its share of statewide highway spending in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), when costs are adjusted to factor in unique challenges [...]
The Ohio Senate on March 1 approved a two-year budget measure that will provide $7.8 billion in transportation funding. The measure would also permit counties to levy an additional $5 motor vehicle registration [...]
Idaho House Speaker Scott Bedke (R- District 27A) expects transportation funding will be a bigger issue than anticipated in the last month of the 2017 legislative session, describing damaged roads and rough winter weather [...]
Louisiana roads and bridges could lose millions of dollars of federal matching revenue in the next few years if new state transportation funding is not approved, according to state Department of Transportation and [...]
Since the passage of "Rhodeworks," a plan approved by the state legislature in 2016 to fund bridge repairs with a toll on heavy commercial trucks, Rhode Island has issued $60 million more construction [...]
The South Carolina House of Representatives on March 1 passed a plan to increase motor fuel taxes and transportation-related fees to provide an estimated $600 million annually for needed transportation infrastructure maintenance and [...]
The Virginia legislature on Feb. 25 gave preliminary approval for the creation of a transportation fund “lockbox” that would prevent transportation-related funds from being raided for other uses. Because it is a constitutional [...]