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Heiligenstein Ushers In the Year of Customer Service
Bill CramerJanuary 9, 2014
The Year of Customer Service. It’s exactly the theme you would expect from IBTTA’s 2014 President, Mike Heiligenstein, after his 10 years at the helm of the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority (CTRMA) and 23 years in public service. Every... Read More
Larry Ehl Suspends Publication: Thanks for a Job Well Done
January 8, 2014
By Jenise Fryatt and Mitchell Beer The new year brought the announcement that Larry Ehl, crusading publisher of Transportation Issues Daily (TID), will be suspending his popular daily blog and weekly newsletter to become Chief of Staff for the Port... Read More
A Well-Funded Toll Road Puts Safety Concerns on Ice
December 16, 2013
Stories
Road salt and de-icing solution might not be the most obvious symbols of a safe, well-run toll road. But when temperatures dropped just below freezing last week in the Dallas-Forth Worth area, it fell to the North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) to... Read More
Two House Bills Together Are Greater Than the Sum of the Parts
Bill CramerDecember 5, 2013
Of the two House bills Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) introduced earlier this week, the proposal to raise the gas tax and index it to inflation has received by far the most attention. But the Road Usage Fee Pilot Program Act of 2013 is the measure that... Read More
Putting the Highway Funding Crisis on Ice
Bill CramerNovember 22, 2013
At a September forum organized by the Reason Foundation, IBTTA Executive Director and CEO Patrick Jones came up with another great metaphor to explain the roots of the highway funding crisis.   One of the most persistent myths about tolling is that... Read More
As U.S. Cities Grow Farther Apart, Tolling Brings Us Together
Pat JonesNovember 20, 2013
At the U.S. Travel Association’s Connecting America Through Travel conference earlier today, two unique maps were released that show how traffic congestion is pushing American cities farther apart. Based on travel times, not geography, U.S. Travel... Read More
Tolling Heralds a Highway Financing Renaissance
Bill CramerNovember 14, 2013
The renaissance is about to begin. And tolling is leading the way.That’s the optimistic, yet realistic message in an IBTTA guest post published earlier this week by the InfrastructureUSA blog, an influential website that advocates to restore America... Read More
‘Life Is Worth More Than $10 an Hour’: Dr. Gridlock Tells the Story
Bill CramerNovember 9, 2013
In his November 9 column, Washington Post reporter Robert Thomson came up with the ultimate winning narrative for congestion management projects like Virginia’s 495 Express Lanes. Thomson, a.k.a. Dr. Gridlock, produced a first-year review of the 495... Read More
“Thomas Friedman: Hey America, other countries asking, “What’s up with you guys?”
Bill CramerNovember 2, 2013
I’d like to share with you this recent article by New York Times writer, Thomas Freidman.  He writes about how America is perceived abroad and America’s future. Mr. Freidman raises many good points.  One, I have highlighted in bold, as he points out... Read More
A Toll Is Not A Tax: Just Ask the Virginia DOT
Bill CramerOctober 17, 2013
Citing history dating back to 1772 and court cases ever since, lawyers for the Virginia Department of Transportation delivered a blistering rebuke earlier this summer to the false notion that tolls are taxes. Along the way, VDOT put together a... Read More

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