By Lauren Fix The federal government has a mandate that requires new school buses purchased to be zero emission by 2027 and all school buses in operation to be electric by 2035. One electric school bus costs upwards of 400,000 dollars, and up to 30,000 dollars more per bus for the needed infrastructure. Not to […]
11 Blog Posts From the PENNSYLVANIA Tag
New Global Push Back Against Electric Bus Mandate – NOT WORKING!
February 25, 2024 • 0 Comments • CALIFORNIA, Electric Bus, Electric Vehicle, Infrastructure, IOWA CITY, Mass Transit, NEW MEXICO, PENNSYLVANIA
Pennsylvania Goes Tollistic
• February 24, 2021 • 1 Comment • E-ZPass, Electric Vehicle, Fuel, Gas Tax, Infrastructure, infrastructure funding, LICENSE PLATE, NMA, OOIDA, PENNSYLVANIA, PPP, Public Private Partnership, REVENUE GENERATION, TOLL, Toll Roads, TOLLING, tolls
Editor’s Note: After we posted this Tolling in America Blog, Car and Driver posted an article with a headline question: Can You Name the World’s Most Expensive Toll Road? and guess what? It is the great state of Pennsylvania! Pennsylvania’s Department of Transportation decided this month to place tolls on nine bridges located on […]
Are State DOT Rockfall Projects Money Pits?: NMA E-Newsletter #630
• February 8, 2021 • 0 Comments • Infrastructure, infrastructure funding, NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA, Rockfalls, SAFETY
Have you ever wondered how much it costs to mitigate rockfalls on state highways and interstates? The bigger question, perhaps, is the expense worth it? Late last year, NorthJersey.com posted an interesting article about rockfall project expenses in the state. Even though they did not come out and say it, it seems some rockfall projects […]
E-ZPass is Anything But: NMA E-Newsletter #528
February 25, 2019 • 0 Comments • DELAWARE, NEW JERSEY, NMA, OOIDA, PENNSYLVANIA, REVENUE GENERATION, TOLL, TOLLING
Abuses by tolling authorities continue to mount. The lawsuit filed last year in U.S. District Court by Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association and the NMA against the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission for collecting inflated tolls to pay for projects unrelated to the operation and maintenance of the Turnpike continues under the purview of a federal judge. She […]
Bleeding revenue in Pennsylvania
A police lobbyist in Pennsylvania complained recently, “All the work we’d done was eviscerated.” The work he did was gathering support for a bill allowing local police to use radar. The evisceration was an amendment requiring radar to be used for safety rather than revenue. Bills to let local departments use radar are a perennial […]
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