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More VMT Tax Trials
I just finished listening to last week’s presentation on the ODOT trial of a mileage tax and I came away impressed by just how complicated both the study and the means of collecting the info for the tax were. I wonder if the Puget Sound trial was less complicated? Portland State University Center for Transportation…
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Kulongoski Calls for Congestion Pricing as Advocacy Group Launches CRC Alternatives Web Site
Speaking to the Oregon Environmental Council, Governor Kulongoski spoke strongly in support of congestion pricing (in the form of variable tolling at bottleneck points in the system). See Oregonian coverage and commentary by Jeff Mapes. Interestingly he has slightly altered his rhetoric about the Columbia River Crossing. He spoke of “offsetting” the greenhouse gas emissions…
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Experience with VMT Tax Pilot
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2008 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Anthony Rufolo, Professor, Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University Topic: Behavioral Responses to Oregon’s Mileage Fee Experiment When: Friday, April 11, 2008, 12:00-1:30pm Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204
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NY Times Editorializes for Infrastructure Spending
Read the whole thing here. Nearly seven months after a highway bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, a federal commission put a jaw-dropping price tag on starting to attend to America’s crumbling foundations: $225 billion a year for the next 50 years just to maintain and upgrade surface transportation.
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How the Feds Mess with Transit Projects
Here’s a great article from the Pioneer Press in Minneapolis/St. Paul that talks about how the FTA calculates a Cost Effectiveness Index for transit projects. The Streetcar Loop is going through the same process and is subject to the same 23.99 magic number. Our problem is that every time we submit data that gets us…