{"id":2023,"date":"2020-10-29T17:14:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T17:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2020-10-29T17:14:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T17:14:09","slug":"will-covid-eliminate-the-gas-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/will-covid-eliminate-the-gas-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Will COVID eliminate the gas tax?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be fair, the gas tax wasn&#8217;t performing to meet infrastructure needs before COVID either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is the American Association of State and Highway Transportation Officials advising?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The believe in a user-pay principle where the amount you drive determines what you\u2019re paying, but COVID shows the weakness in this plan too<\/li><li>A solution: Federal COVID funding relief package<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How is COVID impacting transportation revenues?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Maryland is cutting $3 Billion form its transportation plan<\/li><li>California estimates a revenue hit of $1.2 Billion that will hit primarily transportation projects <\/li><li>This fall, New Jersey law required an automatic rise in the gas tax by 9cents because of low revenues<\/li><li>National League of Cities survey of its members say 65% are delaying or canceling capital expenditures and infrastructure projects<\/li><li>Pennsylvania Department of Transportation estimates $550 million in losses<\/li><li>Oregon has a diversified transportation funding system with 35% coming from a tax on trucks and has fared better<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartcitiesdive.com\/news\/the-gas-tax-was-already-broken-the-pandemic-could-end-it\/587653\/\">Smart Cities Dive | The gas tax was already broken. The pandemic could end it.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be fair, the gas tax wasn&#8217;t performing to meet infrastructure needs before COVID either. What is the American Association of State and Highway Transportation Officials advising? The believe in a user-pay principle where the amount you drive determines what you\u2019re paying, but COVID shows the weakness in this plan too A solution: Federal COVID [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2024,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/2024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}