At a recent post-election debrief at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington DC it was agreed that the U.S. DOT still needs to focus on finding a sustainable funding source for transportation. It was just last year that the House proposed a 33% spending cut to keep spending in line with revenues, and there was speculation that by 2014 proposed cuts could be as high as 57%.
While many believe an eventual switch to a mileage-based funding system in inevitable if politically toxic, the gas tax is still the obvious solution. Doug Foy, who ran Mitt Romney's Office for Commonwealth Development in Massachusetts, noted that people have to start thinking of paying for transportation like they for utilities, adding that he paid upwards of $2,000 last year for cable/internet, phone and gas/electric.
Read it on DC Streetsblog.
While many believe an eventual switch to a mileage-based funding system in inevitable if politically toxic, the gas tax is still the obvious solution. Doug Foy, who ran Mitt Romney's Office for Commonwealth Development in Massachusetts, noted that people have to start thinking of paying for transportation like they for utilities, adding that he paid upwards of $2,000 last year for cable/internet, phone and gas/electric.
Read it on DC Streetsblog.
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