By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director On a recent Saturday evening, I spoke at a concerned-citizen Zoom meeting on the planned express toll lanes for US Highway 69 in Overland Park, Kansas. In researching the topic and listening to local residents and commuters, I thought it would be appropriate to write about the difficulty in […]
30 Blog Posts From the Congestion Pricing Tag
Overland Park, KS: Future of US Highway 69 and the Proposed Express Toll Lanes: NMA E-Newsletter #647
June 7, 2021
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Congestion Pricing, ETL, Gas Tax, LEGISLATION, Mass Transit, NMA, Road Diets, TOLL, Toll Roads, TOLLING, Traffic Calming, Traffic Congestion, traffic safety
ATFI Letter to President Biden and Secretary Buttigieg on the American Jobs Plan and Tolling in Infrastructure
May 19, 2021
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ATFI, Congestion Pricing, Gas Tax, Infrastructure, infrastructure funding, LEGISLATION, NMA, PPP, Public Private Partnership, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, TOLL, TOLLING, tolls, Traffic Congestion
Editor’s Note: The National Motorists Association supports the Alliance for Toll-Free Interstates and this letter to our nation’s leaders on tolling in America. Dear President Biden and Secretary Buttigieg: The Alliance for Toll-Free Interstates (ATFI) is a growing alliance of individuals, businesses and organizations advocating for long-term, sustainable, efficient, equitable, and sensible highway infrastructure funding […]
Alliance for Toll-Free Interstates Spring 2021 Update
March 24, 2021
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ATFI, Congestion Pricing, Fuel Tax, Infrastructure, infrastructure funding, LEGISLATION, NMA, REVENUE GENERATION, Toll Roads, TOLLING, tolls, Traffic Congestion, VMT
At the one-year anniversary of COVID-19’s official arrival in the United States, state governments face unprecedented budget shortfalls as they search for ways to raise revenues for transportation projects in the absence of the proper funds. The pandemic has kept people off of roads across the country, and transportation departments from Pennsylvania to Wyoming are […]
Alliance for Toll-Free Interstates Winter 2020/2021 Update
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December 23, 2020
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AFTI, Congestion Pricing, Infrastructure, infrastructure funding, LEGISLATION, PPP, Public Private Partnership, TOLL, Toll Roads, TOLLING, tolls
“We’ve gotten precious little help from the federal government,” Pennsylvania State Representative Tim Hennessey recently said as he touted his support for a new network of tolls on the commonwealth’s major bridges. States are pleading for more federal help as our nation continues to work on rebounding from the crippling economic effects of the COVID-19 […]
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A State Should Never Lease Its Roads
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November 25, 2020
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AFTI, Congestion Pricing, Infrastructure, NMA, PPP, Public Private Partnership, REVENUE GENERATION, TOLL, TOLL ROAD, TOLLING
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in October 2020 as an NMA E-Newsletter #614. If you would like to receive our one-topic weekly E-Newsletter, join the NMA today. Reason Foundation’s Transportation Guru Robert Poole released a study in August of how nine states could financially benefit if they were to lease their toll road systems to […]
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