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Public Opinion *

Road user fees and congestion pricing
Public-private partnerships
Airport pricing
Other

Road user fees and congestion pricing

John Balbus, M.D., M.P.H., Environmental Defense Fund
Best reason yet for congestion pricing: kids' mental health Exit

Jim Cameron, Chairman, Connecticut Rail Commuter Council
Talking Transportation: Value Pricing Our Highways Exit

Steven Cohen, Earth Institute, Columbia University
Congestion pricing saves more than it costs. Exit

Wirt Cook, Vice President, IBM
Innovation needed to replace aging bridges, reduce traffic congestion; Congestion pricing, not more roads, an answer Exit

Richard Deschamps, News Talk Radio CJAD
Toll roads popular with Quebecers: poll Exit

The Dieringer Research Group, Inc.
Mileage-Based User Fee Public Opinion Study: Summary Report Exit

Michael Eshleman
Taking the 'free' out of freeway Exit

Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Director, Hudson Institute Center for Employment Policy
Traffic Congestion Solutions Exit

Steve Marshall, Bradley Meacham, Municipal League of King County, WA
Pull Over And Consider This: The Traffic Could Get Even Worse Exit

Adrian Moore
L.A. Should Seize Opportunity and Federal Funds to Ease Congestion Exit

New York Daily News
The Price of Folly Exit

New York Sun
New York Can Do Better Than London Exit

New York Times
Mass Transit Needs Congestion Pricing Exit

Damien Newton
Heated anti-HOT lane arguments don't add up Exit

Toll lanes next to freeways: Separate transportation for the rich? Exit

Mary Peters, United States Secretary of Transportation

- Department of Transportation Activities, United States Senate, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

- The Folly Of Higher Gas Taxes Exit

- Transportation Infrastructure Financing, United States House of Representatives, Committee on the Budget

Margaret Petrella, Lee Biernbaum, and Jane Lappin
Exploring a New Congestion Pricing Concept: Focus Group Findings from Northern Virginia and Philadelphia Exit

Robert Poole
 - Battle Continues Over Highway Paradigm Shift Exit
 - Convert Los Angeles' Carpool Lanes to Toll Lanes Exit

Robert Puentes, Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Don't Raise that Gas Tax...Yet!, Exit

Matt Rosenberg, Cascadia Prospectus
Congestion Pricing, Tolls Loom For Puget Sound Exit

Sam Staley
How tolls and congestion pricing can reduce air travel and road delays Exit

Steven Swinford, The Sunday Times
British cities shun London's wasteful car tax Exit

Transportaton Research Board
Compilation of Public Opinion Data on Tolls and Road Pricing Exit

Tri-State Transportation Campaign
Q Poll Finds NYC Support for Congestion Pricing Exit

George F. Will
Fighting The Real Gridlock. Exit

Johanna Zmud
A Synthesis of Public Opinion Studies on Tolling and Road Pricing Exit

 

Public-private partnerships

Don Brunell, President, Association of Washington Business
It's time to take public roadways private Exit

Rick Geist, Chairman, Pennsylvania House Transportation Committee
Public-private partnership can fix PA's highways Exit

David B. Horner, Esq., Chief Counsel, Federal Transit Administration
Role of Innovative Contracting in the Delivery and Operation of Major Transportation Infrastructure Projects Exit

Kathryn Phillips, Sacramento Bee
Keeping public needs in focus in P3 deals Exit

Robert Poole
 - Despite some signs of backlash, toll road PPPs had many great steps forward in 2007 Exit
 - Minnesota Bridge Collapse Puts Focus on Infrastructure Crisis Exit
 - Will Midway Lease Re-Start U.S. Airport Privatization? Exit

Geoffrey Segal
The Indiana Toll Road: One Year Later

Vince Versace, Daily Commercial News and Construction Record
Public support for public-private partnerships remains strong, says council Exit

Airport pricing

New York Times
Congestion Relief Exit

USA Today
Our view on congestion pricing: Adjust landing fees Exit

Robert Poole
 - Airport Band-Aid Exit
 - Business jets would benefit from user-fee based air traffic control system Exit
 - Congestion Pricing Will, Indeed, Fly Exit

Other

Wendell Cox, Demographia.
Freight by rail. Exit

Gerald Nicely, Tennessee Transportation Commissioner
Opinion: Incident Management Is Everyone's Business.Exit

John O'Connor
Survey: South Carolinians favor increase in cigarette tax, oppose increase in gas tax Exit

Dan Pullman, McNamee Lawrence & Co.
Aligning the public and private on transportation fuels. Exit

 

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Last updated: 7/17/2008