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Gasoline tax in Oregon
Hi everyone, I paid a visit to the Oregon state website to see what I could discover on the gasoline tax. The Department of Revenue site has some links to “tax expenditures”, in which Chap. 3 discusses “gas, use, and jet fuel taxes”. P. 301 gives these figures: — current state tax rate $0.24/gallon, federal…
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Comprehensive Evaluation of Congestion Costs and Solutions
This article, written by Todd Litman and published on Planetizen, broaches the possibility that the Texas Transportation Institute’s methodology for their annual Urban Mobility Report is flawed by using unrealistic expectations as a benchmark for measuring the cost of congestion. He suggests that a more realistic measurement of cost could be derived by using a…
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More Green Streets
The City of Portland is ramping up its efforts to make our streets more environmentally friendly. From the Daily Journal of Commerce: A policy approved by Portland City Council in April makes green street features like curb extensions, bioswales and stormwater planter systems a required part of all city-funded infrastructure projects in the public right-of-way.
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Limiting Local Trips on Interstates
Via Planetizen: Planners in Tallahassee, Florida are resisting calls to add more ramps to I-10, trying to prevent congestion: “A lot of locals are using I-10,” said Tommie Speights, a spokesman for the department. “That’s what’s causing the congestion.”
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Drumbeat for Next Legislature Continues
This time it’s in the Daily Journal of Commerce, where guest columnist Craig Honeyman (of the Oregon chapter of Associated General Contractors) calls for a continuing coalition of business and local governments to keep the heat on the Legislature to provide a comprehensive transportation funding package.