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Tolling Discussion
Over at Blue Oregon, pointing out some fairly obvious concerns, but also maybe throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Read and comment there.
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New State Transportation Funding Strategy?
An interesting piece in the Daily Journal of Commerce yesterday (“State leaders draw roadmap for transportation reform”) contains musings from Rex Burkholder and Senate Transportation Chair Rick Metsger among others. Statewide, “we spend a lot of money on transportation each year, and we don’t really evaluate it in any way more than how many cars…
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Skepticism About Public-Private Partnerships on Roads
Via Planetizen: An editorial piece in the Hartford Courant suggests that the Public is getting the short end of the deal.
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Urban Renewal and Streetcar
An article in today’s Trib drills down on TIF (tax increment) funding for the proposed Streetcar Loop. The target is $31M of the $70M of local match coming out of 4 urban renewal districts. This is not a secret, Sam Adams testified to this effect in from of PDC more than 6 months ago. But…
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Piloting a VMT Tax
Back in 2001, when the legislature, once again, could not find a way to convince voters that raising the gas tax to keep pace with inflation might be a good idea, they instead created the Road User Fee Task Force (RUFTF – I’m still trying to figure out how that is pronounced). One of the…