Video recordings and supporting material from the 2nd Annual “National Workshop for State & Local Transportation Advocates” are now available online. The workshop, held July 15 in the Nation’s Capital, drew over 100 [...]
A legislatively-commissioned report released Aug. 5 found that funding for Louisiana’s Transportation Trust Fund (TFF) is not keeping pace with the growing needs the of state’s highways, and additional revenue is required in [...]
Tennessee Senate Transportation Committee Chairman Jim Tracy (R-Shelbyville) Aug. 10 called for the state to repay the highway fund $280 million that had been diverted to the general fund between 2001 to 2007. [...]
The ARTBA government relations staff has produced a nine-page summary of the 1,000-plus page “Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy (DRIVE) Act” surface transportation reauthorization bill that passed the Senate [...]
Washington became the seventh state in 2015 to approve an increase in their state gas tax, joining Idaho, Iowa, Georgia, South Dakota, Utah and Nebraska. On Aug. 1, a 7 cents-per-gallon increase went [...]
by Eileen Houlihan, ARTBA senior writer editor The Transportation Coalition of Tennessee, a statewide group of businesses, citizens, community leaders, public officials and organizations – including ARTBA chapter Tennessee Road Builders Association – [...]
North Carolina’s House of Representatives Aug. 3 introduced a plan to increase transportation funding for the state that combines elements of separate plans introduced by the Senate and Governor Pat McCrory (R) [...]
The below article was published by Matthew Ubben, president of 'Floridians for Better Transportation' and Transportation Investment Advocates Council member, in the Miami Herald on July 28, 2015. BY MATTHEW D. UBBEN bettertransportation.org Published [...]
For the first time in more than a decade, one chamber of the U.S. Congress has passed a surface transportation reauthorization investment bill that is longer than two years. The Senate’s July 30 [...]
With seven states agreeing to raise gas taxes so far this year, three major ballot initiatives on the horizon and Congress facing a July 31 deadline to extend federal funding, transportation advocates couldn’t [...]
