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In Hillsborough, Florida business organizations are “gearing up to lead the campaign to pass a half-cent sales tax for transportation projects if county commissioners agree to put the tax on the November 2016 ballot.”
Business says lack of adequate roads and transportaiton funding is harming economic development.
Cape Girardeau, Missouri has a pay as you go transportaiton fund that works like this:
An Austin TX tech company, Codaxus, has a devise that will determine how close a car is to a cyclist. Chattanooga, TN recently hired a former Austinite who served as the police liasion to the bicylce community. Chattanooga is now using the Codaxus to enforce the bucylce safety law it has not enforced in the 8 years since it eas enacted.
Seattle has a transportation funding crisis. The mayor has called for $930 million in additional funding.
Two City Council members tried to counter the straight $930mllion levy on property taxes with a funding plan that included:
The move failed, but the creativity in the funding structure should be appreciated.
Trying to find a solution for transportation funding, bipartisan U.S. Senators seek to tax foreign assets.
“Sen. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) and Rob Portman (R., Ohio), co-chairmen of a Senate Finance Committee working group on overhauling the international tax system, would impose a one-time tax on profits that multinational companies have stashed overseas at a rate lower than the current 35% U.S. corporate tax rate, according to a summary of its major provisions.”
With federal transportation funding overhauled stalled, many states this year raised taxes for transportation including:
What coalitions supported these tax increases? The peope trying to get to work.
Washington State is moving toward a permanent gas tax bump of 11.9 cents per gallon.
California is facing a special legislative session on transportation. Republians have a plan to fix transportation funding without taxes by touting these principles:
And, by using these funding sources for $6 billion in existing…
Interstate Commerce requires transportation. As a logical continuation, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s transportation chief, speaking in Dallas said:
A recent Deloitte University Press Report studying what millenials wnat in transportation plans says that a way to save billions & build a trasnportation system for the future is to support alternative approaches.
The answer, folks, to saving billions in transportation: car-, ride- and bike-sharing.
Deloitte University Press Governing American Transportation Association Study