Members of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee January 28 heard from U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx, Governors Robert Bentley (R-Ala.) and Peter Shumlin (D-Vt.), and South Dakota Secretary of [...]
Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton (D) January 26, 2015 announced a plan to generate nearly $11 billion in transportation funding for the state by instituting a 6.5 percent tax on the wholesale price of [...]
The Transportation Investment Advocacy Center's first 2015 report on state transportation legislation is now available. Thirteen states are currently considering transportation funding legislation, with more expected as the year progresses. In January, several [...]
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R) proposed a 10 cent-per-gallon state gas tax increase during her annual State of the State speech January 21, 2015. Haley’s plan to generate additional transportation funding over [...]
Governor Paul LePage (R) announced January 12 a plan to invest $2 billion into the state’s transportation infrastructure over the next three years. The “Work Plan,” as it is called, proposes an estimated [...]
Newly-elected Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker (R) released $100 million in Chapter 90 transportation funds on January 8 to support local transportation infrastructure. Chapter 90 funds are used to reimburse cities and towns for [...]
Minnesota Senate leaders released a comprehensive transportation funding plan January 12, 2015 to generate more than $800 million in new recurring revenue and $1.567 billion in bonds for the state’s transportation infrastructure. The [...]
Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy (D) highlighted transportation funding as his primary goal for 2015 and emphasized the important of a transportation lockbox during his “State of the State” address January 8. While [...]
The TIAC staff researches and prepares detailed case studies of recent successful—and unsuccessful—state and local legislative and ballot initiative campaigns aimed at increasing transportation infrastructure investment. For each case, the studies dig into [...]
A Georgia legislative report distributed December 30, 2014, has found a several billion dollar funding gap for the state’s transportation infrastructure needs. According to the report released by the Joint Study Committee on [...]