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Funding Legislation Proposed for CA Transport Agencies

Soon, the threshold for passing local transportation bonds in California could be far lower, unlocking funding for countless transit needs across the Golden State.

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Caltrain Funding Cuts Could Stunt Bay Area’s Growth

All of Caltrain’s problems have solutions. These involve smart investments in better service and one of the keys is the Caltrain electrification project. And yet, the Republican Party is threatening to...

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Do Toll Roads Hurt The Poor?

The idea of paying for transportation with a gas tax or, even worse, a sales tax runs counter to everything we advocate for. Everyone pays a little, everyone expects a lot. But do toll roads work...

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States Aren’t Waiting for Trump’s Infrastructure Funding

Republican leaders from at least six states are pushing to raise gasoline taxes or other fees to pay for upgrading roads and bridges, saying they can’t count on President Donald Trump’s $1 trillion...

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What CO Transportation Bill Does for Active Transport

Colorado lawmakers took a step closer to finalizing a transportation funding measure that would go before voters in November. The bipartisan bill consists of a small sales tax hike — .62 cents on the...

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Infra Funding Through Value Capture Harder Than It Seems

Is “value capture” a wonderful untapped opportunity to fulfil all our infrastructure dreams? Our new report casts a cold, hard gaze over value capture, and finds that it’s a good tax in theory, but...

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Rural Minnesota Transport Subsidized by Twin Cities

Perception aside, metro does not get bulk of transportation dollars, analysis shows.

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MD Gov. Lists Transport Priorities, Meets Trump Officials

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) met with top Trump administration officials Wednesday in a bid to advance state interests in transportation, health care and housing.

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CA Plans Infra Fix By Selling Out Clean Air

A proposal outlined by CA leaders would raise fuel taxes and levy a new “road user fee” on drivers to pay for vital transportation infrastructure. But the press releases and speeches did not mention...

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After Years of Inaction, CA Rushes to Approve Transport Funding Bill

Governor Jerry Brown and California legislative leaders are hoping that the transportation funding package they have agreed on will get quick approval in the legislature, and to that end have been...

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Trumping the Transportation Progress Our Cities Need

The president’s spending proposals would derail the networks that are key to our economic growth.

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New Gas Tax Opposition Arises In CA

Assemblyman Vince Fong clashed Monday with Gov. Jerry Brown over how a proposal to raise gas taxes for road repairs may add to increases in fuel prices expected from the state’s cap-and-trade program.

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CA Transport Bill Passes with Closed-Door Deals, Public Posturing

Well, it’s done. Last night, the California legislature passed S.B. 1, the transportation funding bill that has been hard fought for the last two years.

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Can Interstate Tolling Solve States’ Road Funding Crisis?

Tolls are not everyone’s cup of tea. But thanks to its robust tolling program for major highways, Illinois is moving ahead with widening and reconstruction projects comparable to those that are stalled...

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Why CA’s New Transport Bill Is a Really Big, Historic Deal

Not only does it solve big problems for cities and transit agencies across the state, it shows that California can raise significant funding for transportation in an era of dwindling federal resources.

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Funding Transit With Value Capture and Smalller P3s

TRB will conduct a webinar on Wednesday, June 7 at 2:00PM that features research from the TCRP’s Report 190: Guide to Value Capture Financing for Public Transportation Projects, and Report 191: Public...

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Gas Tax Hikes The Norm in Many States

Nearly half the states have increased fuel taxes in the past five years, suggesting it’s perhaps not the political risk it was once thought to be.

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Mileage Fees, Not Gas Taxes, Will Work

Taxing miles instead of fuel better matches the current transportation landscape: This is, after all, an era where technology is rewriting the rules on how people move, and how they relate to...

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Detroit’s Streetcar and Rise of Urban Philanthropy

Detroit, a city with a fraught relationship with transit, just got a downtown streetcar. After years of complex administrative and funding hurdles, the QLine recent opened, an impressive achievement...

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LA City Council Approves $27M for Vision Zero

The full L.A. City Council approved $27.2 million for Vision Zero in the city’s fiscal year 2017-18 budget. This represents a vast increase over the current year’s Vision Zero budget of $3-4 million,...

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