I-81 plan proposes tolls for trucks, cars Oct 22 2018 Paying for $2 billion in needed improvements along Interstate 81 could include charging tolls for passenger cars and commercial trucks, sales and fuel tax increases or some combination of those, according to a draft plan. Read More Editorial: Who's going to pay for I-81? Sep 29 2018 Last week, the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce heard from Jeff Southard, executive vice president of the Richmond-based Virginia Transportation Construction Alliance, who repeatedly said that upgrading I-81 will require “political will.” Read More Editorial: Interstate highways should not be toll roads Aug 25 2017 A transportation system that allows for the free flow of people and goods is as essential to the nation’s economy as a healthy circulation system is to the human body. That’s why transportation is one of the federal government’s most important domestic responsibilities. Unfortunately, in the half century since the interstate highway system was created, members of Congress have often viewed their obligation to maintain and expand it as merely one of many programs competing for federal funds, rather than the top priority it should have been all along. In doing so, they failed to provide sufficient resources to repair aging highways and bridges and add new ones to handle increased traffic. Read More
Editorial: Who's going to pay for I-81? Sep 29 2018 Last week, the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce heard from Jeff Southard, executive vice president of the Richmond-based Virginia Transportation Construction Alliance, who repeatedly said that upgrading I-81 will require “political will.” Read More Editorial: Interstate highways should not be toll roads Aug 25 2017 A transportation system that allows for the free flow of people and goods is as essential to the nation’s economy as a healthy circulation system is to the human body. That’s why transportation is one of the federal government’s most important domestic responsibilities. Unfortunately, in the half century since the interstate highway system was created, members of Congress have often viewed their obligation to maintain and expand it as merely one of many programs competing for federal funds, rather than the top priority it should have been all along. In doing so, they failed to provide sufficient resources to repair aging highways and bridges and add new ones to handle increased traffic. Read More
Editorial: Interstate highways should not be toll roads Aug 25 2017 A transportation system that allows for the free flow of people and goods is as essential to the nation’s economy as a healthy circulation system is to the human body. That’s why transportation is one of the federal government’s most important domestic responsibilities. Unfortunately, in the half century since the interstate highway system was created, members of Congress have often viewed their obligation to maintain and expand it as merely one of many programs competing for federal funds, rather than the top priority it should have been all along. In doing so, they failed to provide sufficient resources to repair aging highways and bridges and add new ones to handle increased traffic. Read More
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