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Connecting people to jobs and services week: What do destination access metrics look like in action?

20 Nov 2019 | Posted by Transportation for America | 2 Comments | Access to jobs, Connecting people to jobs and services, Virgina, Wisconsin

Academics have long pointed to a metric called destination access—called by Transportation for America “access to jobs and services”—as a better decision guide than older, conventional measures that focus mainly on the speed of cars. But what does this new practice look like in real life, and where and how is it already being used?

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GOP Rep. Petri joins bill to raise the federal gas tax

3 Dec 2014 | Posted by Teddy Lederer | 4 Comments | blumenauer, gas tax, highway trust fund, Oregon, Petri, Wisconsin

The Highway Trust Fund, our nation’s key infrastructure funding source, has been teetering on the edge of insolvency for the past few years, with legislators from both parties unable to secure a long term funding source.

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Voters in two states consider measures to restrict funding to transportation uses

22 Oct 2014 | Posted by Teddy Lederer | 5 Comments | ballot measures, Capital Ideas, Fred Risser, funding, Greater Greater Washington, lockbox, maryland, Question 1, state funding, transportation vote 2014, Wisconsin

Facing the uncertainty of stable federal transportation funding and often unwilling to raise their own taxes to fund transportation, some states have seized upon the idea of protecting their transportation revenues for transportation uses. On Nov. 4, Maryland and Wisconsin voters will be deciding on similar measures that would put transportation funds into protected accounts that can’t be appropriated for non-transportation uses.

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In 2013, 20-plus states took up transportation funding: Here’s the final tally

9 Jan 2014 | Posted by Steve Davis | 2 Comments | gas tax, Indiana, maryland, massachusetts, Ohio, pennsylvania, Revenue study commissions, sales tax, State Funding Series, state transit funding, transportation funding, virginia, washington, Wisconsin

With a large number of state legislatures convening as the new year gets underway, it’s worth a look back at an important trend from 2013: States stepping forward to raise additional money for transportation. With federal funding remaining flat in 2012′s transportation bill (MAP-21) and after years of deferred action during the long recession, a large number of states, metro areas and local communities moved to supplement federal dollars with new revenues of their own.

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