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Reauthorization Testimony Prompts Congress to Address Funding, Regulation
Bill CramerNovember 26, 2019
  With reauthorization of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act on the Congressional agenda, a Cornell University policy expert is calling on legislators to fix the highway system by shoring up its funding and optimizing its... Read More
Maryland, Virginia Team Up on Congestion-Busting Bridge Widening
Bill CramerNovember 19, 2019
In what a leading newspaper is calling “an unusual example of interstate cooperation,” two state governments and the private sector have pulled together on a congestion relief project to benefit highway users in one of the United States’ most... Read More
Alaskan Way Viaduct Demolition Transforms Seattle's Waterfront
Bill CramerNovember 12, 2019
It isn’t often that the process of taking down a well-known highway becomes a major cause for celebration. But that’s what’s happened in Seattle, after the Washington State Department of Transportation successfully demolished the Alaskan Way... Read More
Wildfires, Power Shutdowns Point to New Challenges for Infrastructure
Bill CramerNovember 5, 2019
The last month of pre-emptive electricity shutdowns in California, aimed at preventing utility power lines and transformers from sparking deadly wildfires, has brought a sharp focus to the fragility of some of the infrastructure our communities take... Read More
Trick or Treat -- Beware That Creaking Infrastructure When You're Out for Halloween
Bill CramerOctober 29, 2019
A two-year-old post on America’s infrastructure crisis from U.S. news satire site The Onion tells exactly the spooky, scary story the transportation community will be looking for ahead of Halloween celebrations this Thursday. “Tossing and turning... Read More
Autonomous Vehicles Move Past the ‘Hype Cycle’
Bill CramerOctober 22, 2019
It was bound to happen. Like every promising new technology that has ever been subject to overheated hype and impossible expectations, connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) have come crashing back to Earth in the last year, as pundits and... Read More
Two-Volume History Shows Connecticut's Past Reliance on Tolls
Bill CramerOctober 15, 2019
One way to get some perspective on the challenges facing transportation, and the role of tolling in solving them, is to write a two-volume history of a state transportation system that goes all the way back to the colonial era. In Connecticut,... Read More
Greta Thunberg Is Asking the World a Question. Tolling Has Part of the Answer.
Bill CramerOctober 8, 2019
Sixteen year-old Greta Thunberg has become the face of a global movement, galvanizing public concern about the climate change into a call to action with millions of voices. Thunberg is the first to insist that the mounting phenomenon we’re... Read More
Jones: From Mary-Jane O’Meara to Greta Thunberg, Visionaries Shape the Future
Bill CramerOctober 1, 2019
Greta, Charles, Arielle, Mary-Jane, and Chelsea shared center stage in Halifax September 17 when IBTTA Executive Director and CEO Pat Jones delivered his report to the association’s annual members’ meeting. You can view Pat’s recorded remarks on... Read More
Massachusetts Considers Congestion Pricing to Counter Epic Gridlock
Bill CramerSeptember 24, 2019
Anyone who spends too much time stuck in traffic congestion can tell you how loudly the problem demands a solution. When many thousands of commuters hear that voice twice a day, every workday and even during weekends, the momentum for change... Read More

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