- FHWA Grant Recipients Explore RUC Alternatives To Gas Tax Funding
- Negotiations Over Passing An Infrastructure Bill Continue
- Ugandan Government Says Entebbe Expressway Tolling Will Start In July
- These are just some of the toll industry developments TRN is following.
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FHWA Grant Recipients Explore RUC Alternatives To Gas Tax Funding
Civil Engineering Source reports on how the $18.7 million in Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives grants awarded by the Federal Highway Administration in March are being used by the recipients. Their focus is on exploring mileage-based user fee solutions to the problem of dwindling gas tax revenues. According to the article, funding state-based research is consistent with USDOT Secretary Buttigieg’s goal of developing funding alternatives in a cooperative manner.
Eastern Transportation Coalition (Formerly I-95 Corridor Coalition) Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) Road Use Charging (RUC-MBUF-VMT) Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) US Department of Transportation (USDOT)Negotiations Over Passing An Infrastructure Bill Continue
The Hill reports, “President Biden sat down with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) [yesterday] to discuss the administration’s proposed $4 trillion spending package, which the moderate-minded lawmaker has floated busting up. Manchin said Biden didn’t take a position on if the proposal should be passed as one piece as opposed to two or more as some Democrats are pushing for, but indicated the issue came up as part of their sit-down at the White House.”
Infrastructure Investment Trends US Gov't Transportation Funding US Infrastructure Funding And Financing InitiativesUgandan Government Says Entebbe Expressway Tolling Will Start In July
Daily Monitor reports, Uganda officials said motorists will start to pay tolls on the Entebbe Expressway in July. Several government departments are working “to have the national road toll strategy gazetted by end of June.” The article notes that a cabinet tolling policy was adopted in 2019, but the country’s solicitor general said a legislative act was necessary for the policy’s implementation.
A Daily Monitor editorial maintains that toll collection should have started sooner and the delay has serious implications with regard to the country’s debt burden. The editors note that US$350 million of the tollway’s US$476 million P3 construction cost was financed through a loan from the Export–Import Bank of China.
China Company and Agency Financial Issues And Reports P3 & Privatization Uganda Uganda National Roads AuthorityThese are just some of the toll industry developments TRN is following.
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