Gas tax
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Infographics
Daily Infographic: How does the Highway Trust Fund work?
The Highway Trust Fund (HTF) is a central piece of a multiyear surface transportation reauthorization bill that Congress is negotiating to replace the Fixing America’s…
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Today's Pickup
Today’s Pickup: US makes $225M in grants available to ports
The U.S. Department of Transportation has opened the application process for $225 million in grants available to ports for infrastructure improvements. Plus, coronavirus idles containers,…
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Legal issues
President Trump cancels infrastructure meeting with Democrats
President walks out abruptly following cover-up allegations
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News
Trucking, labor optimistic ahead of White House infrastructure meeting
Getting Trump to support raising the gas tax would be a major step toward passing an infrastructure bill.
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Economics
Can railroads win at the Green New Deal game?
Railroads - like trucking - will be focusing on solving the Highway Trust Fund problem this year. But could a Green New Deal become a…
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Fuel
House T&I’s DeFazio: Raising the gas tax more likely in new Congress
Lots of ideas for federal funding of infrastructure at Capitol Hill hearing, but the “pay-for” question still looms.
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Fuel
Highway Trust Fund deficits continue to pile up
The Congressional Budget Office reveals latest stats on the diminishing Highway Trust Fund as Congress plans to consider new ways to pay for highway infrastructure.
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Equipment
User fee plan enters 2019 highway funding debate
The biggest hurdle to making an infrastructure plan work is figuring out how to pay for it. A Washington D.C. think tank says Congress is…
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Intermodal
New Capitol Hill leadership ready to push freight infrastructure agenda
Freight lobbyists are banking on leadership changes in the 116th Congress to pave the way for infrastructure financing that stalled during the first half of…
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Economics
Trump’s leaked infrastructure plan seeks to commercialize rest stop and travel industry
The “leaked” plan calls for liberalizing tolling policy and allowing states to commercialize interstate rest areas, among other things, as a means of funding infrastructure.
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