- Conduent Analysis Reveals A Surge In US Toll Road Volume
- POLITICO: "Drivers Used To Pay For Roads. Washington Is Killing That Idea."
- Trucking Industry Criticizes Alabama DOT's Approach To Managing Mobile Congestion
- These are just some of the toll industry developments TRN is following.
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Conduent Analysis Reveals A Surge In US Toll Road Volume
According to a Conduent Transportation analysis of electronic tolling data, traffic on several major US toll road systems “soared” between March and May. March 2021 volume was 25.9 percent greater than March 2020 volume and even exceeded the March 2019 total by 11.6 percent. “The rebound expanded” in April and May, Conduent data showed. Conduent serves six of the 10 largest toll systems in the nation.
Conduent Highway-Tunnel-Bridge Safety (Includes COVID-19 Impacts)POLITICO: "Drivers Used To Pay For Roads. Washington Is Killing That Idea."
POLITICO reports, lacking the political will to raise the gas tax or supplement its receipts with some new type of fee, federal lawmakers are relying on borrowed money to finance the various big infrastructure packages now under consideration. That situation has “traditional road advocates, as well as businesses that rely on highways to keep commerce flowing” worried about the erosion of the venerable principle that users pay for America’s roads. While voicing serious concerns, adherents aren’t giving up on “users pay,” insisting that it is the best way to provide a dedicated, multiyear funding stream for the the nation’s surface transportation system.
Highway-Tunnel-Bridge Maintenance Infrastructure Investment Trends US Gov't Transportation Funding US Highway Trust FundTrucking Industry Criticizes Alabama DOT's Approach To Managing Mobile Congestion
WPMI reports, the trucking industry is critical of an Alabama DOT plan to improve holiday traffic flow around Mobile by temporarily detouring truck traffic. “The Wallace Tunnel is off limits to commercial truckers during peak hours on Thursday and Friday, as state transportation officials work with Mobile Police to reroute big rigs across the Cochrane Bridge, into Africatown, and onto I-65.” An industry spokesman who expressed concerns about the plan’s safety added that it will not relieve congestion and reveals the flaw in the state proposal to build a trucks-only toll bridge in Mobile.
Alabama Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) Highway-Tunnel-Bridge Safety (Includes COVID-19 Impacts)These are just some of the toll industry developments TRN is following.
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