Browsing: Transporation

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.

Priorities should include tax reform, corrections, professional licensure and tolling

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.

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