Category Archives: Transportation

Fuel Tax and Caps Detailed in TCI Model Rule, Now Open for Public Comment

Posted on April 14, 2021 by Stephen D. Haner

Read the governing document for the Transportation and Climate Initiative and it becomes clear there is more going on than just an effort to reduce motor fuel use with a combination of taxes and shrinking caps. That may really be a secondary goal. Continue reading →

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Maryland Managed Lanes Have Developer, But Still Face Opponents

Posted on March 31, 2021 by Baruch Feigenbaum

Last month, the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT), its State Highway Administration (SHA), and the Maryland Transportation Authority (MTA) selected Accelerate Maryland Partners LLC as the public-private partnership (P3) developer/operator for Phase 1 of the $11 billion I-495 and I-270 … Continue reading →

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Subsidies for Electric Cars, Buses and Charging Will Accompany TCI’s Taxes and Rationing

Posted on February 13, 2021 by Stephen D. Haner

The ultimate goal of the Transportation and Climate Initiative with its tax and rationing scheme is to eliminate fossil fuels for transportation and get us into electric vehicles.  That is something advocates have admitted and critics have pointed out.  While Virginia TCI participation is on … Continue reading →

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Carbon Taxes, Gasoline Rationing Remain Unpopular Policies

Posted on January 6, 2021 by Stephen D. Haner

The Transportation and Climate Initiative plan to tax and ration motor fuels suffered a major setback just before Christmas, when eight of the eleven states considering it decided not to move forward in 2021. Less than two weeks earlier, advocates … Continue reading →

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Five Steps to Guide Transportation Planning and Spending During the Pandemic

Posted on September 23, 2020 by Alan Pisarki

This analysis discusses a five-step approach to understanding and addressing the new challenges that preceded, and now are intensified by, the COVID-19 pandemic and economic events of this year. The way that we react to them will be crucial to … Continue reading →

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