Three advocates explored their governor’s involvement in state transportation funding debates during the Transportation Investment Advocacy Center’s (TIAC) May 3 webinar. Speakers compared the challenges of running campaigns in states where Republican governors [...]
Eighty-six bills in 37 states are currently being tracked in the Transportation Investment Advocacy Center’s ‘State Transportation Funding Monthly Report’, with more anticipated as the year progresses. Since the last report: Indiana Gov. [...]
With bipartisan collaboration and the support of the governor, a solution for Oregon’s transportation funding shortfall seemed likely at the beginning of the 2015 legislative session. However, by the summer, bipartisan discussions had [...]
With bipartisan collaboration and the support of the governor, a solution for Oregon’s transportation funding shortfall seemed likely at the beginning of the 2015 legislative session. However, by the summer bipartisan discussions had [...]
One state calculates the impact of a 2015 transportation funding increase, two states feel the pinch of transportation funding shortfalls, and leaders in three states look to increase the state gasoline tax. *** [...]
By Eileen Houlihan, senior writer/editor ARTBA The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) says it is delaying $553 million in road projects scheduled for fiscal years 2017 through 2019 unless existing state highway funds [...]
Nebraska lawmakers April 12 approved a bill that will create a state transportation infrastructure bank. Initial funding includes $50 million from the state’s rainy day fund and the 2 cents-per-gallon gas tax increase, [...]
Minnesota leaders this week highlighted the state’s critical need for increased transportation funding: County officials told the state legislature on April 11 that they have done all they can to raise local transportation [...]
“There is so much at stake with these funding issues. Politics is the process of making good policy, but the process is relational. This workshop provides an opportunity to build relationships and get [...]
After months of legislative debate on road funding plans, South Carolina House Republican leaders on April 12 amended the Senate’s transportation funding plan in order to change the bill’s governance reforms and remove [...]