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Repair Priorities: Transportation spending strategies to save taxpayer dollars and improve roads

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

Routine preservation vs. deferred repairs

SMART GROWTH AMERICA & TAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSE
By underfunding repair and allowing roads to fall out of good condition, state leaders are choosing the most expensive type of repair possible, as rehabilitating a road that has completely deteriorated is substantially more expensive than keeping that road in good condition in the first place…Adding further urgency to these budget concerns is that with every dollar spent on new construction, states add to a road system they are already failing to adequately maintain. As a result, states face a large and growing financial burden.

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Tags: Reconnecting America, Smart Growth America, Taxpayers for Common Sense
Posted in Biking, Funding, Highway, Infra Views, National, Policy, Roads, Tax

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California’s Bullet Train — On the Road to Bankruptcy

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

For California’s high-speed rail boosters including their chief cheerleader, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the month of May must have felt like a month from hell. First came a scathing report by California legislature’s fiscal watchdog, the non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO), questioning the rail authority’s unrealistic cost estimates and its decision to build the first $5.5 billion segment in the sparsely populated Central Valley between Borden and Corcoran.

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Tags: C. Kenneth Orski, CA, California, HSR, Innovation Newsbriefs, Ken Orski
Posted in Funding, High Speed Rail, Innovation Newsbriefs, The Infra Blog

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Building Boondoggles? Is Governor Walker Spending Billions on Four Roads to Nowhere?

Monday, May 30th, 2011

Table 1: The Cost of Four Highway Expansion Projects

WISPIRG
At a time when the State of Wisconsin is wielding an axe with many public programs and vital transportation services, it appears to be shoveling tax dollars toward four highly questionable highway expansion programs that could cost over $2 billion. The new construction largess is particularly troubling given that these tax dollars will be diverted from improving the state of repair on Wisconsin’s existing roads or transit systems, or from public structures such as schools and public safety in our local communities.

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Tags: Bruce Speight, Kyle Bailey, PIRG, WI, Wisconsin, WISPIRG
Posted in Funding, Highway, Infra Views, Local, Policy, Roads

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Getting a Fair Share for Safety from the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP)

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

ADVOCACY ADVANCE
This report examines some of the states that have successfully dedicated federal safety funds to reduce bicycle and pedestrian fatalities and crashes. In a number of cases, advocates have taken a leading role in ensuring the transportation agency had prioritized road safety projects for non‐motorists. Hopefully, these experiences will help advocates and officials in other states access this untapped resource for badly needed bicycle and pedestrian safety projects.

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Tags: Advocacy Advance, Alliance for Biking & Walking, Highway Safety Improvement Program, HSIP, League of American Bicyclists, Pedestrian
Posted in Biking, Funding, Infra Views, Local, National, Policy, Roads, Sustainability, Urban Planning

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It Takes More than Love to Build a Bridge

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

“Love can build a bridge” says Winona Judd in her popular country song, but when it comes to replacing the century-old Sears Hill Bridge in Staunton, VA it’s going to take cold, hard cash. The Staunton Downtown Development Association, in collaboration with the Friends of the Sears Hill Bridge and The Community Foundation are launching […]

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Tags: Friends of the Sears Hill Bridge, Sears Hill Bridge, Staunton, Staunton Downtown Development Association, The Community Foundation, Virginia
Posted in Aging Infrastructure, Bridges, Funding, Local, Public Parks & Recreation, Show Us Your Infra, Urban Planning

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A Bumpy Road Ahead? A Close Look at NJDOT’s 2012 Capital Program

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

TRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN
New Jersey’s draft fiscal year 2012 capital program provides almost $3.5 billion in funding for the state’s road and transit systems, with approximately $2.3 billion (66%) going to New Jersey Department of Transportation and $1.164 billion (33%) set aside for New Jersey Transit investments…The Tri-State Transportation Campaign has closely analyzed the NJDOT portion of the capital program, comparing funding levels across project types, and examining trends in past spending priorities.

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Tags: Department of Transportation, New Jersey, NJ, NJDOT, Tri-State Transportation Campaign, TSTC
Posted in Aging Infrastructure, Funding, Infra Views, Local, Roads

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WHAT DO AMERICANS THINK ABOUT FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION TAX OPTIONS? PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM YEAR 2 OF A NATIONAL SURVEY

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

Support levels for the tax options surveyed in 2010 and 2011

MINETA TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE
This report presents the preliminary results of the second year of a random-digit-dial public opinion telephone survey investigating support among members of the public for a variety of transportation tax options at the federal level. The survey results show that a majority of Americans would support higher taxes for transportation—under certain conditions.

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Tags: Federal, Mineta Transportation Institute, survey
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California: High-Speed Rail Is at a Critical Juncture

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Proposed Timeline and Cost of High-Speed Rail Implementation

LEGISLATIVE ANALYST’S OFFICE
California’s proposed high–speed rail project would link the state’s major population centers, including Sacramento, the San Francisco Bay Area, the Central Valley, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire, Orange County, and San Diego…In this report, we describe a number of problems that pose threats to the high–speed rail project’s successful development as envisioned by Proposition 1A.

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Tags: CA, California, Eric Thronson, Farra Bracht, HSR, LAO, Legislative Analyst's Office
Posted in Funding, High Speed Rail, Infra Views, Local, Policy, Rail

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Missed Opportunity: Transit and Jobs in Metropolitan America

Monday, May 16th, 2011

Figure 1. Share of Working-Age Residents with Access to Transit, by Region, 100 Metropolitan Areas

BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
Transportation leaders should make access to jobs an explicit priority in their spending and service decisions, especially given the budget pressures they face. Metro leaders should coordinate strategies regarding land use, economic development, and housing with transit decisions in order to ensure that transit reaches more people and more jobs efficiently. And federal officials should collect and disseminate standardized transit data to enable public, private, and non-profit actors to make more informed decisions and ultimately maximize the benefits of transit for labor markets.

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Tags: Adie Tomer, Alan Berube, Elizabeth Kneebone, Metropolitan Policy Program, Robert Puentes
Posted in Employment, Funding, Infra Views, Jobs, National, Policy, Public Transportation, Transit, Urban Planning

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Measuring Transportation Investments: The Road to Results

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

PEW CENTER ON THE STATES & ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
In fiscal year 2010, states spent an estimated $131 billion in taxpayer dollars on transportation. Yet many policy makers cannot answer critical questions about what results this investment is generating…he goal of this assessment of the 50 states and Washington, DC, is to identify which are doing the best in terms of having essential tools in place to make cost-effective transportation funding and policy choices—and to help lawmakers understand how to use these tools to do a better job with limited dollars.

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Tags: Pew Center on the States, Rockefeller Foundation
Posted in Equity, Funding, Infra Views, National, Policy, Transit

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Archive for the ‘Funding’ Category

Repair Priorities: Transportation spending strategies to save taxpayer dollars and improve roads

California’s Bullet Train — On the Road to Bankruptcy

Building Boondoggles? Is Governor Walker Spending Billions on Four Roads to Nowhere?

Getting a Fair Share for Safety from the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP)

It Takes More than Love to Build a Bridge

A Bumpy Road Ahead? A Close Look at NJDOT’s 2012 Capital Program

WHAT DO AMERICANS THINK ABOUT FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION TAX OPTIONS? PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM YEAR 2 OF A NATIONAL SURVEY

California: High-Speed Rail Is at a Critical Juncture

Missed Opportunity: Transit and Jobs in Metropolitan America

Measuring Transportation Investments: The Road to Results

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