Salt Lake City, UT
Released by The Salt Lake Tribune
Legislators may soon form a new task force to study how to fund the state’s transportation needs — including looking at how other states and nations do it…
More info at http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/55825751-90/transportation-force-state-task.html.csp
Seattle, WA
Released by The Seattle Times
The mayors of more than 40 cities across Washington have sent a letter to Gov. Jay Inslee and legislative leaders, urging them to consider an 8-cent per gallon increase in the gas tax to help pay for transportation needs…
Richmond, VA
Released by The Washington Post
The truest sign that Virginia lawmakers might be closer to a possible compromise on Gov. Robert F. McDonnell’s $3.1 billion transportation initiative could be that almost everybody found something distasteful in the proposal that emerged Tuesday from a key Senate panel…
Tampa, FL
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Brian Willis sold his car when he moved from the Tampa Bay area to Washington, D.C., for law school. He took public transportation everywhere. When he moved back to take a job at a law firm, he found a place six blocks from a bus station. Yet now he mostly drives to work…
More info at http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/as-transit-talk-builds-in-pinellas-a-new-advocacy-group-arrives/1274808
Pinellas County, FL
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The Pinellas County Commission will vote Feb. 26 on whether to place a sales tax increase for major transit changes on the ballot in November 2014…
Annapolis, MD
Released by The Washington Post
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley met with Senate Democrats on Tuesday as part of a continuing effort to craft a bill to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in additional revenue for transportation projects, an aide said…
Clark County, WA
Released by The Columbian
Supporters of bus rapid transit made a renewed push for the system Tuesday night, undeterred by a November vote that left the proposal without a clear path forward for local funding…
More info at http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/feb/12/bus-rapid-transit-backers-to-c-tran-advance-projec/
Richmond, VA
Released by The Washington Post
A key committee meeting Tuesday could offer a glimpse of what a possible compromise on Gov. Robert F. McDonnell’s transportation funding plan would look like.
And lawmakers from both sides and transportation experts say the least likely element to survive is the centerpiece of McDonnell’s proposal: eliminating the gas tax for an increase in the sales tax…
Released by ARTBA
State departments of transportation (DOTs) and local governments committed a little over $117 billion in funding for highway, bridge, transit, port and other transportation-related construction projects during 2012, according to new analysis of the most recent U.S. Census Bureau data by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA)…
More info at http://www.artba.org/article/states-committed-nearly-120-billion-for-transportation-improvement-projects-in-2012/
Indianapolis, IN
Released by The News-Times
More than 200 people are expected to attend meeting at the Statehouse to show their support for a public referendum on mass transit funding…
More info at http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Transit-advocates-to-show-support-at-House-hearing-4267747.php