Browsing: Transporation

As streetcar ridership and funding dwindle, alderman warns of long-term fiscal burden

Outdated Wisconsin law hampers electric automaker’s direct-sales business model

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

The Hop, a $128 million streetcar that travels a 2.1-mile loop in downtown Milwaukee, is a classic boondoggle made possible by federal grants (i.e., taxpayer money). Meanwhile, the Joseph Project, a Milwaukee transportation enterprise that rejects government funding, is helping central city residents secure good-paying manufacturing jobs in neighboring counties. With a small fleet of church vans (most of them donated), the Joseph Project creates taxpayers instead of fleecing them.

Video shows how The Hop fleeces taxpayers while the Joseph Project creates them.

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.

State funding for local roads should be used only for projects that create better and more efficient transportation routes or spur economic development.

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

A better way to help the disabled get to work.

Claims that the streetcar swayed major development decisions in downtown Milwaukee are off track

A primer on Wisconsin’s unsustainable transportation revenues

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.

Bipartisan legislative support for a tolling study likely exists and is validated by two major reports

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

As the world moves forward with automated vehicles, Milwaukee clings to 19th century technology

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.