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Slicing and Dicing
Here we go again, the bienniel food fight over the region’s flexible transportation funds, otherwise known as the MTIP process. In fact, you’ll read another contributor this morning advocating for including a project on the first cut list. So gear up for the public process component for the final cut: Comment on transportation projects The…
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Measure 48 Potential Impacts on Transportation
Rob passes on this link to a story in the Daily Journal of Commerce speculating on how Measure 48 spending limits could impact transportation.
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Field Notes on Tolling Technology
While traveling on the East Coast last week, I had a chance to see tolling technology from an up-close and personal perspective. Unfortunately, as I was in a rental car, I got to see the advantages of the technology from the slow lane.
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Gas Tax and Ballot Measures
Rob Zako sends word that a new ballot measure being proposed for the 2008 election would dedicate 1% of gas tax revenues to the State Police and County patrols. Today the state gas tax is dedicated (by constitutional amendment) to exclusive use on roads. There seem to be several schools of thought around this kind…
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Looking Under the Couch Cushions for Small Change
Anna Griffin has a piece in yesterday’s in Portland section of the Oregonian (City turns to parking in drive to fix roads). The idea is to figure out what the parking permits that a number of different categories of organizations (press, non-profits, etc.) use to skip paying at parking meters are really “worth” (in the…