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Hot Under The Collar Over HOT Lanes

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist No one likes paying or the same thing twice. So what is it with these High Occupancy Toll (HOT) lanes that charge people for the privilege of being able to drive on roads and highways financed by ...

Report Gets Frosty Reception From Transportation Community

A recent article in the Innovation Briefs newsletter analyzed a recent report entitled "Moving Cooler". The report made the claim that the United States could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by up to 47 percent by the year 2050 just ...

Watch Your Wallet When Driving Through These 10 States

With the first major driving holiday of the summer season approaching, we have analyzed the laws across the country to determine the best and the worst states when it comes to exploiting the motoring public. These state rankings were calculated using ...

Why Haven’t Toll Road Charges Been Reduced?

  By James Baxter, NMA President The proponents of toll roads and the use of variable pricing to mitigate congestion seem to be sending mixed signals. Not very long ago the use of new technology to charge motorists a fee every time they ...

9 Ways To Improve Traffic Safety That The Government Will Ignore Because They Are Too Busy Ticketing You

The Federal Highway Administration has strongly recommended nine tools for decreasing road fatalities. You can find them at the end of this article. Most of these tools are fairly basic and simple to implement. So why aren't they already universally ...

Funding Our Highways

By James Baxter, NMA President The Bush administration just released another version of their plan to shift responsibility for highway funding to the “users.” This isn’t a bad idea, except that’s exactly the situation that has largely existed for most of ...

Fuel Economy & Toll Roads: Using One Problem To Solve Another

By NMA President, James Baxter In the February issue of Car and Driver Magazine there were two articles that, in their own way dovetailed together to answer a question no one is ...

EZ-Pass Or EZ-Cash? Why Toll Roads Are A Bad Idea

By NMA President, James Baxter Electronic transponder technology, like E-ZPass, is making toll roads more palatable, but that doesn't mean toll roads are good public policy. Toll roads are an inefficient, backwards approach to providing public highways. Worse, they foster corruption, ...

Texas Toll Authorities Double-Bill 50,000 Drivers & Have No Plans To Stop In The Future

According to a report in the Austin American Statesman, motorists on three Austin toll roads have been double-billed since charges began in January. One out of every 600 vehicles was double-billed in that time period. The money ...