Advocacy leaders from three states will come together to share lessons learned and best practices for instituting a variable-rate state gas tax in order to create sustainable transportation funding at the 2015 National [...]
The Director of Government Relations at Pike Industry, Larry Major, will share his organization’s keys to success from their effective advocacy campaign to increase the state gas tax by 4 cents-per-gallon—the first increase [...]
The Connecticut legislature and Governor Dannel Malloy (D) announced May 31 a state budget agreement to provide $10 billion over the next five years for transportation infrastructure, a $2.8 billion increase that will [...]
Move Texas Forward president Scott Haywood will discuss his organization’s efforts to successfully pass last year’s ballot measure, advocate for this year's legislative approval of Senate Joint Resolution 5, and the organization’s campaign [...]
The Texas Legislature voted to put transportation funding on the November 3 ballot with the intent that voters will approve almost $3 billion to fix the state’s roads and bridges. The constitutional amendment [...]
Georgia transportation advocates experienced a resounding victory with the passage of the state’s House Bill 170 in May, a bill that will increase transportation funding within the state by an estimated $900 million [...]
Texas Senate Transportation Chairman Robert Nichols (R-Jacksonville) and House Transportation Chairman Joe Pickett (D-El Paso) both confirmed on May 26 that the state legislature had reached a compromise between two bills to increase [...]
by Lital Shair, Market Research Associate Updated May 27, 2015 An updated report from the American Road and Transportation Builders Association finds that seven states have delayed or canceled projects, valued at $1.63 billion, [...]
Learn why and how a record number of transportation investment initiatives have passed in 2015 at the 2nd Annual “National Workshop for State & Local Transportation Advocates.” The ARTBA Transportation Investment Advocacy Center™ [...]
Almost 40 states—well over half the country—have considered, or are currently considering, transportation funding legislation so far this year, according to the Transportation Investment Advocacy Center’s latest monthly report of 2015 on state [...]
