From the article:

“The new law increases the speed on 570 miles out of 1,332 miles of interstate highways in Ohio.”

From the article:

“Bushell explained that the state needs to be awarding at least $6 billion a year in new construction contracts to maintain highways and address congestion in a minimally acceptable way.

‘You can’t drop from $7 billion a year in contract lettings down to $2.4 billion in a matter of a few years without doing really serious damage to the infrastructure that builds and maintains our roads,’ he said.”

From the article:

“Some experts say the quickest and easiest thing to do is to simply index the 18.4-cent gasoline tax—which hasn’t changed since 1993—to inflation…[o]thers believe the gasoline tax is obsolete and needs to be replaced with an alternative source offunding.”

Read and decide.

From the ARTBA E-mail Newsletter, announcing the release of their report:

“However, the failure of the administration to recommend a realistic source of funds to support its investmentproposals suggests that, beyond fundingfor the core transportation investmentprograms, the President’s transportation budget requests will run into resistance in Congress.”

A link to the ARTBA Report is here.

From the article:

“The problem is thateducation alone rarely leads to behavioral change, they say, and the legislation in effect cannot be stringently enforced.”

Our thoughts exactly.

From the article:

“Since legislation banning handheld device usage while driving kick in in January 2010, BC police have issued 105,972 tickets for use of handheld electronic devices.”

From the article:

“If the Legislature does not find (road) money, this state will have massive transportation gridlock,” Phillips said.

Hey, we’re back!  We’ve been away far too long, working on other projects.  But, blogging resumes tonight!

From the article: 

“Clearly this is not the full picture,” of what is happening in Florida,” said Matthew Montgomery, legislative affairs director for the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.

From the article:

“This plan just makes sense as we continue Ohio’s economic resurgence, grow jobs and make our state prosperous once again,” [Ohio Governor John] Kasich said.

NB:  this is a press release.

From the article:

“Communities have until Dec. 31 to inventory town streets, sidewalks, buildings, properties and parks; develop a plan and budget to remove barriers; and implement a review process to monitor progress in removing those barriers.”