Growing dissatisfaction with federal transportation policy and government’s mismanagement of the highway trust fund have encouraged many in Congress and in state governments to seek ways to overhaul the system or to extract themselves from it. Since the mid-1990s, legislation has been introduced each year in Congress to phase out…
Abstract: President Barack Obama’s high-speed rail program promises to spend hundreds of billions of dollars in federal and state funds to provide mediocre passenger rail service to an extremely small fraction of travelers. In this time of tight budgets, neither the federal government nor…
Abstract: The 2010 Heritage Foundation report “Washington’s War on Cars and the Suburbs” disputed Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s claims that public transit produces substantial economic benefits, consumes only one-fifth the energy of cars, and saves billions in other costs. The author of the 2004…
Abstract: Many of the claims and assertions that U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood makes on behalf of the transit industry are inconsistent with the data and studies produced by many agencies of the federal government, including his own Department of Transportation. Secretary LaHood…
Advocates of more federal spending for highways and transit note that the federal fuel tax (currently 18.3 cents per gallon of gasoline) has not been raised since 1993 and that the 17-year freeze has limited the financial resources of the highway trust fund and its ability…
Want a fast way to blow some taxpayer dollars? Buy a ticket on President Barack Obama's high-speed spending...…
Remember that Beatles song about the taxman? “If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street.” Well, that’s just about what the...…
As the President’s ambitious passenger rail program falters, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood is attempting...…
The Obama administration is still in denial about the message the American people sent Washington last Tuesday. In...…
Toyota’s bad press has been for its sticky pedal incident certainly isn’t surprising, but is all the negative attention...…