Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Gas Tax

Senators Murphy (D) and Corker (R) Propose 12-Cent Gas Tax Increase

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 18, 2014 | No Comments

There are several proposals on the table to stave off the impending insolvency of the Highway Trust Fund (which pays for transit, biking, and walking projects too) in two months. Just now, two senators teamed up to announce one that might actually have a chance. Sens. Bob Corker (R-TN) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) have proposed […]

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Barbara Boxer’s Transportation Bill: Same As It Ever Was

By Tanya Snyder | May 13, 2014 | No Comments

The future of national transportation policy is pretty much like the present of national transportation policy, if the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has its way: underfunded and highway-centric. The bill released by Senator Barbara Boxer’s EPW Committee yesterday [PDF] rejects pretty much everything the Obama administration put forth in its bill, including permanent […]

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Uncle Sam Wants You to Drive: 5 Tax Breaks for Cars in the U.S. Tax Code

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 15, 2014 | No Comments

It’s April 15. If you bought an electric car in 2013, you can claim a tax break today. If you bought a plug-in hybrid, you can get a tax break today. But if you don’t own a car and walk to work instead? Sorry, Charlie. There’s a whole array of goodies in the U.S. tax […]

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Concrete Proposals for Raising Gas Tax Finally on the Table

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 3, 2013 | No Comments

After a lot of vague talk about transportation revenues since the passage of MAP-21 — “everything is on the table” and “we need to think outside the box” — real proposals are finally being presented. A few months ago, House Transportation Committee Chair Bill Shuster told me, “The surest way to kill something is to […]

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A Golden Opportunity for Congress to Avoid the Transportation “Fiscal Cliff”

By Tanya Snyder | May 1, 2013 | No Comments

MAP-21 expires in a year and five months. When it does, if lawmakers haven’t already found a solution to the “transportation fiscal cliff,” they’ll have to do one of three things, according to a report issued last week by the Congressional Budget Office [PDF]: Transfer $14 billion more in general funds Raise the gas tax […]

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Virginia’s Transpo Future: Charge Drivers Less to Build More Roads

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 26, 2013 | No Comments

Congratulations are owed to Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell. He’s scored a victory on his transportation funding plan, cementing his legacy (though infuriating conservatives, including his hand-picked successor). His achievement is being called the first bipartisan initiative to pass in Virginia in decades. And what does this great deed accomplish? Secure revenue to fuel a new […]

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