Browsing: Toll Rolls Roads

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Wednesday renewed a call for Wisconsin to adopt tolling as a way to pay for state infrastructure projects.  An alternative is needed, he said, as increased fuel efficiency and an increase in electric cars on the road are contributing to declining gas tax revenues.

The motor vehicle fuel tax, long the mainstay for highway funding in Wisconsin, is becoming unsustainable as a revenue source due to increased vehicle mileage and popularity of vehicles that use no fuel. Now is the time to consider a replacement.

As a way for funding an important public good — highways — Wisconsin’s gas tax was pretty good

Highway funding, which relies on the gas tax, will be hard hit as fuel sales decline

Poor pavement condition and high spending mean the state isn’t getting top value from its highway dollars

A tolling system on our interstate highways will make sure that all cars using our roads, even those from out of state, will contribute toward their upkeep and maintenance.

Wisconsin needs to face the reality of declining fuel-tax revenue and transition to per-mile charges

The Department of Transportation now has the opportunity to study tolling as a path forward to fix our crumbling infrastructure

Wisconsin has a transportation funding dilemma. How did it occur, and how can we fix it? Dale Knapp, director of Forward Analytics, and Robert W. Poole Jr., director of transportation policy at the Reason Foundation, discuss growing expenditures, shrinking revenues and tolling solutions. Their presentation was delivered at the Badger Institute’s Policy Symposium.

WI can pioneer 21st century interstates, become a model for other states.

Join us in Milwaukee for lunch, presentation and book signing with Robert Poole

Wisconsin ranks #38 in Reason Foundation’s annual report on best and worst state highway systems.

Wisconsin ranks 38th in the latest state highway systems report.

There’s a reason our legislators can’t get it in gear when it comes to transportation funding. The few realistic short-term options are pretty much akin to sucking a little more exhaust out of a tailpipe.

Interstate Tolling for Wisconsin: How & Why, a webinar presentation by Robert W. Poole Jr., director of transportation policy at Reason Foundation.

We compiled a list of resources for state policy-makers on issues ranging from professional licensure to transportation funding to corrections reform. This handy brochure includes reports, commentaries and links to videos designed to inform public discourse on issues that will affect Wisconsin residents for years to come

Wisconsin needs to solve its highway funding shortfall, and toll-financed Interstate modernization is a powerful tool for doing so.

Wisconsinites need to get used to the idea of electronic tolls on our freeways. It’s a free-market solution to an overwhelming problem: lack of cash to pay for modestly modern highways.