January 6, 2019 • Congestion Tolling,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Fuel Tax,
Gas Tax,
HIGH OCCUPANCY,
NEWSLETTER,
REVENUE GENERATION,
TOLL,
TOLL ROAD,
TOLLING,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION,
VIRGINIA “This article originally appeared on TheNewspaper.com, (“Driving Politics”) and is reprinted with their kind permission.” Federally funded report explores the possibility of turning every mile of interstate highway into a toll road. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine on Thursday released a report saying motorists ought to pay up to $70 billion in higher […]
November 11, 2018 • ARIZONA,
CALIFORNIA,
COLORADO,
CONNECTICUT,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FLORIDA,
Fuel Tax,
Gas Tax,
IDAHO,
infrastructure,
LOUISIANA,
MAINE,
MISSOURI,
NEVADA,
NEW MEXICO,
NEWSLETTER,
Red-Light Camera,
SAFETY,
TEXAS,
UTAH,
Washington State The mid-term elections are officially over. Ballotpedia stated this week on its website that voters in 37 states decided a total of 155 statewide ballot measures. Not all, of course, were motorist related but a few certainly were. We have also included some important county or city ballot issues that asked voters to raise the […]
October 28, 2018 • CALIFORNIA,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Gas Tax,
LETTER WRITING,
New York City,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
POLICING FOR PROFIT,
Red-Light Camera,
Road Diet,
SAFETY,
SPEED LIMIT,
SPEED TRAP,
TEXAS,
TOLL,
TOLL ROAD,
VISION ZERO Even though drivers constitute what should be the largest voting block in the country, you would never know it by apathetic motorists who drive blissfully unaware until they are confronted with the reality of the war on cars—which is essentially an effort to get people out of their cars for good through regulations that impede […]
April 15, 2018 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Gas Tax,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
PATollsLawsuit2018,
PENNSYLVANIA,
Pennsylvania Turnpike PennDOT,
REVENUE GENERATION,
ROAD-USER FEES,
TOLLING A basic principle held by the National Motorists Association is, “Reasonable highway user fees [are] for maintaining and improving highways, not for financing non-highway projects.” (See the other main NMA tenets here.) The recent class action lawsuit the NMA filed with truckers’ association OOIDA against the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission for many years of excessive tolling […]
December 31, 2017 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Gas Tax,
MINNESOTA,
NEWSLETTER,
OREGON,
REVENUE GENERATION,
TOLL,
TOLL ROAD,
TOLLING,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION,
VIRGINIA,
WASHINGTON Single-occupant Northern Virginia commuters had a rude awakening in early December when they used Interstate 66 express lanes and found new tolls spiking as high as $44 for commuting the 10-mile stretch between the Capital Beltway and the District of Columbia. While the Virginia DOT showed that the average round-trip toll during the first week […]
