National Motorists Association Blog

By James Baxter, NMA President The proponents of toll roads and the use of variable pricing to mitigate congestion seem to be sending mixed signals. Not very long ago the use of new technology to charge motorists a fee every time they hit the road was being touted as the cure for every ill known […]

By James Baxter, NMA President The Bush administration just released another version of their plan to shift responsibility for highway funding to the “users.” This isn’t a bad idea, except that’s exactly the situation that has largely existed for most of the last century and all of the current century. The users, namely motorists and […]

 By NMA President, James Baxter Electronic transponder technology, like E-ZPass, is making toll roads more palatable, but that doesn’t mean toll roads are good public policy. Toll roads are an inefficient, backwards approach to providing public highways. Worse, they foster corruption, political patronage, and discourage needed improvements on the rest of the highway system. Don’t […]