Tolls
Connecticut’s Transportation Plan Stymies Its Future
What is Gov. Ned Lamont doing building all these new roads to compete with transit?
November 19, 2019
Will There Be Tolls for Michigan Drivers?
The debate over tolls versus a gas tax to fix roads in Michigan does not include room for more mass transit.
June 18, 2019
There’s a Right Way to Spend Trillions on Infrastructure
A new report seeks to upend the debate over infrastructure to investments that boost mass transit while saving the planet.
May 14, 2019
Connecticut Drivers Will Start Paying their Fair Share, Thanks to Toll Plan
The days of a free ride across Connecticut are ending as Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont is proposing tolls on the state’s major highways to rebuild its aging transit infrastructure.
May 13, 2019
A Great Big Freeway — Thanks to Induced Demand
Los Angeles is getting what it paid for when it widened 10 miles of its most infamous freeways — another lane of traffic.
May 8, 2019
Congestion Pricing, Often Attacked as Inequitable, Is Actually the Cure for Inequitable Transportation
The best way to ensure that congestion pricing doesn't hurt the poor is to make sure revenues from new tolls support better transit service — not just build more highways.
January 30, 2019
Is Portland’s ‘Congestion Pricing’ Plan Any Good?
Portland wants to put a price on driving on downtown freeways at rush hour. But it will need the Feds' approval.
December 20, 2018
Toronto’s Simple Measure to Cut Traffic and Improve Transit: Toll Highways
The funds would support road repair and transit -- and should improve congestion at the same time.
December 9, 2016
4 Ways Trump’s Transportation Plan Is Ripe for Corruption
As long as Trump doesn't release his tax returns, divest from his assets, and put his wealth in a true blind trust, the public can have no confidence that federal infrastructure spending will be based on merit and not Trump's personal financial interests.
November 28, 2016
Private Toll Road Backed By $430 Million in Federal Funds Goes Bust
From the beginning, there were plenty of reasons to suspect that Texas 130 -- a private toll road between San Antonio and Austin -- was a bad idea.
October 18, 2016