Motorists driving up and down northern stretches of Interstate 95 these days will notice billboards urging them to “Say No to Tolls.” The billboard campaign, organized by business and economic development groups in the northeastern part of the state, is part of an effort to convince state transportation officials to drop plans to toll the […]
RALEIGH — It is a rather remarkable campaign season in North Carolina.
Some politicians argue that government is broken. Against that backdrop, state legislators huddle to draft a major overhaul of tax policy.
Meanwhile, few talk about what is very near the breaking point in North Carolina: the state’s system of financing road construction and maintenance.
The signs […]
The Metro Mayors Coalition sent a questionnaire to each of the three candidates for governor on issues of importance to the Coalition. We let the candidates know we would be printing their responses in a special edition of our newsletter.
Click here to view the 2012 Election Year Special Edition Metro Mayors Newsletter.
Op-Ed by Todd Long, Deputy Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Transportation, explains improvements to transportation grant funding.
There are some 20,000 miles of federal and state highways in Georgia – the interstate system and major roads that link our cities one to the other; carry our commuters to and from employment centers and give […]
With Hispanics and young whites leading the influx, US cities of 5 million or more residents saw the population of their inner cores increase 13 percent in the last decade, the Census reported.
US cities saw their core populations boom by 10 percent in the last decade, as both Hispanics and young white Americans found it […]
No one campaigns against infrastructure.
No one really campaigns on it, either.
In battleground Ohio, a state getting more attention than most this election season, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney fill their stump speeches with talk of cars or coal or trade with China. They say little, if anything, about the roads those cars […]
KDOT: Expiration of aid bill, use of fuel-efficient cars could impede road improvements.
The two largest components of Kansas highway funding have been based on federal aid and the state’s motor fuel tax. But with those resources expected to decline, the Kansas Department of Transportation has been surveying local government and community leaders around the state […]
No one can replace Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, our favorite moderate Midwestern Republican who has passionately told us not to text and drive and also made sure Congress caught hell when the Federal Aviation Administration was facing a partial shutdown. However, unless President Obama has convinced LaHood otherwise, he plans to step down from his […]
Would a private company agree to build new express lanes along the traffic-choked Parkway East in exchange for the right to collect tolls from the drivers who use them?
State Rep. Rick Geist, outgoing chair of the House Transportation Committee, was unequivocal: “I know it’s going to happen.”
Mr. Geist, Gov. Tom Corbett and other officials gathered […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Nine managers in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Government have retired in their 50’s to take a six-figure annual pension which will cost taxpayers as much as $3.7 million each.
A taxpayer advocacy group, Taxpayers United of America, obtained the names and figures under an open records request and released names and dollar […]
