Tolling Points
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Bill CramerJanuary 23, 2020
Average Household Pays Only $23 Per Month in Gas Taxes
The average American household pays just under $23 per month in gas taxes for the roadways it depends on every day, compared to $66 for broadband Internet, $70 for water, $98 for mobile phone...
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Bill CramerJanuary 14, 2020
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao closed out the year and the decade on a high note, with a mid-December statement that shone a light on two of the main benefits of new tolled capacity in North Carolina—their economic impact,...
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Bill CramerJanuary 7, 2020
IBTTA Communications Director Bill Cramer recently sat down with Samuel Johnson, Chief Operations Officer for the Transportation Corridor Agencies (TCA) in Orange County, California, to learn a bit more about his background and interests.
Q: You...
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Bill CramerDecember 17, 2019
The state tolling network that incorporates the nation’s oldest turnpike is getting an early start on celebrating its 80th anniversary next year, after unveiling a $129-million project to make its entire system cashless by autumn 2021.
“As I sit...
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Bill CramerDecember 10, 2019
The news story ran just a minute and 46 seconds. But it covered a lot of ground, pivoting back and forth between screen shots of mostly electronic toll facilities and a taped interview with IBTTA Executive Director and CEO Pat Jones.
In all,...
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Bill CramerDecember 3, 2019
Two weeks ago, the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority hosted the 7th Annual Florida Automated Vehicles Summit, a two-day event organized by several other IBTTA members – Tampa-Hillsborough Expressway Authority, Central Florida Expressway Authority, and...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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