By: Ben Ross
This is a very useful study, but users should be careful because the complexity of transportation funding makes it very hard to put different budgets on a consistent basis. Some of the limitations are...
View ArticleBy: Tim McKuin
Here in Arkansas the chairperson of our state Highway Commission is leading the charge to pass a 1/2c statewide sales tax in November to pay for nearly $2 billion worth of four-lane highways...
View ArticleBy: aw
For WA, see http://www.trackstatedollars.org/state/WA/ The amount of actual bike/ped money is very small, but another category “Road/Bridge Project with Bike/Ped Components” comes in at $2.5B. This is...
View ArticleBy: Patrick
The article says: ” Six states — North Carolina, Indiana, Arizona, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Mississippi — are planning to spend more than 40% of their federal funding on such new capacity programs. In...
View ArticleBy: John Hodges-Copple
thanks for the excellent summary. my reading of the report (page 11) is that GARVEE-funded (actually “financed” since GARVEE doesn’t seem to increase the pot of $ avaialable, just fast-forward the...
View ArticleBy: Ocean Railroader
They might have the road maintenance blended into the highway expansion projects in that is common in Virginia where they will rebuild or replace a old worn out bridge but they will build the rebuilt...
View ArticleBy: Ocean Railroader
What worries me about some of these western states is they are running out of water so they should really should start considering not to want to have more people move in or start spending some of...
View ArticleBy: Andre L.
The dry Western states have a relatively safe reserve: curtailing agricultural use (which still uses much more water than urban areas, despite losing importance in state economy) of water and diverting...
View ArticleBy: Patrick
Some of the projects include water harvesting measures. One particular project that has just broken ground is the Grant Rd. widening (east-west road in north-central Tucson), which will widen a...
View ArticleBy: Progressive Capitalist
If there are no teeth on how to spend the money, then it shouldn’t even be collected. Eliminate the Federal gas tax and let the States decide if they will still tax themselves more to satisfy such...
View ArticleBy: Kyle
As noted at the end of the post, states do not need to enter state funding in the STIP that is not matched to Federal funds. In Massachusetts we passed a multi-billion dollar Accelerated Bridge Program...
View ArticleBy: bill barlow
Having actually assembled the transit portion of the most recent North Carolina STIP (which is readily available but needs some manipulation when you care to do more than view individual projects), I...
View ArticleBy: Nathanael
Arizona sure doesn’t have that option. There was never much agriculture in Arizona and there still isn’t. It’s a DESERT. Though they do have the option of banning lawns and golf courses, which occupy...
View ArticleBy: Adirondacker12800
http://cals.arizona.edu/aes/mac/ag-ventures/AZ_AG_facts.htm Or maybe not. I haven’t been there a quite a few years. There were citrus groves within the Phoenix city limits last time I was there. They...
View ArticleBy: Patrick
Arizona was built on the 5 ‘C’s – Cattle, Copper, Climate, CITRUS & COTTON. I live in Tucson and there are citrus groves right off of I-10 between Tucson and Phoenix (there are actually trees on...
View ArticleBy: Ocean Railroader
In reply to <a href="https://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2012/07/26/state-decision-making-in-the-context-of-federal-transportation-funding/#comment-708986">Patrick</a>. What worries me...
View ArticleBy: Andre L.
In reply to Ocean Railroader. The dry Western states have a relatively safe reserve: curtailing agricultural use (which still uses much more water than urban areas, despite losing importance in state...
View ArticleBy: Patrick
In reply to <a href="https://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2012/07/26/state-decision-making-in-the-context-of-federal-transportation-funding/#comment-709484">Ocean Railroader</a>. Some of the...
View ArticleBy: Yonah Freemark
In reply to <a href="https://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2012/07/26/state-decision-making-in-the-context-of-federal-transportation-funding/#comment-709234">John Hodges-Copple</a>. Thanks...
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