Editor’s Note: After we posted this Tolling in America Blog, Car and Driver posted an article with a headline question: Can You Name the World’s Most Expensive Toll Road? and guess what? It is the great state of Pennsylvania! Pennsylvania’s Department of Transportation decided this month to place tolls on nine bridges located on […]
11 Blog Posts From the PPP Tag
Pennsylvania Goes Tollistic
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February 24, 2021
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E-ZPass, Electric Vehicle, Fuel, Gas Tax, Infrastructure, infrastructure funding, LICENSE PLATE, NMA, OOIDA, PENNSYLVANIA, PPP, Public Private Partnership, REVENUE GENERATION, TOLL, Toll Roads, TOLLING, tolls
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 […]
Tolls in America—a New Reality?
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July 27, 2020
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Congestion Pricing, E-ZPass, Gas Tax, HIGH OCCUPANCY, HOV, Infrastructure, PPP, Public Private Partnership, REVENUE GENERATION, ROAD-USER FEES, TOLL, Toll Roads, TOLLING, tolls
Private toll companies and state toll agencies have run up against a funding crisis just like the rest of the country. As mentioned in the last Tolling in America blog, if private toll companies are a part of a PPP or Public-Private Partnership, they might bail (as has been done before) if the money they […]
Is it Really Tough Times for Toll Roads Ahead?
July 13, 2020
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ATFI, Congestion Pricing, E-ZPass, Gas Tax, Infrastructure, infrastructure funding, NMA, OOIDA, PPP, Public Private Partnership, REVENUE GENERATION, ROAD-USER FEES, TOLL, Toll Roads, TOLLING, tolls, VMT
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director The website Chief Investment Officer posted in June a lament for how tough it is for toll roads right now. Here’s a quote, “The typically stable asset class has been hit as traffic levels have dropped 40 percent to 85 percent globally, S&P analysts say.” So the website tells […]
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