Who Pays for our Roads?

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#74 of 75 Re: Motorcycle... [grbeck] by steve_ HOST Dec 05, 2007 (12:21 pm)
Replying to: grbeck (Dec 05, 2007 11:32 am) So .... about 22% of road funding isn't borne by the road users from those numbers. That sounds like general revenue funding is picking up the slack. And I think it's going to get bigger unless fuel taxes are raised. "About 45 percent of all highway spending comes from the trust fund." (referring to the Highway Trust Fund - Fox News) "The bulk of highway and road funding, about 55%, comes from a combination of state and federal gasoline taxes. The rest generally comes from vehicle registrations, drivers' license fees, bonds and other public borrowing." WSJ via Planetizen Not really on point but this misallocation statement was entertaining: "Over the past 50 years, the motorists in Alaska have received six times as much from the federal highway trust fund as they have paid into it." Heritage Foundation The Highway Trust Fund has a bunch of problems - more fuel efficient cars means less money generated per mile traveled, purchasing power has declined while construction costs have risen, and the Minneapolis bridge collapse focused many people on an aging highway infrastructure (link). Replies to this message: gagrice (Dec 05, 2007 8:44 pm)
#75 of 75 Re: Motorcycle... [steve_] by gagrice Dec 05, 2007 (8:44 pm)
Replying to: steve_ (Dec 05, 2007 12:21 pm) "Over the past 50 years, the motorists in Alaska have received six times as much from the federal highway trust fund as they have paid into it." You would think that Alaska would have better roads. That new Seward Highway is horrible. Alaska attracts a lot of shyster type contractors. Build it and head South, never to be heard from again. Then they probably have sent more legislators to prison in the last few years of any state. Maybe they are just cleaning house. Something the other 49 states and Congress needs to do.

#74 of 75: Re: Motorcycle... [grbeck] by steve_ HOST; Dec 05, 2007 (12:21 pm)

Replying to: grbeck (Dec 05, 2007 11:32 am)

So .... about 22% of road funding isn't borne by the road users from those numbers. That sounds like general revenue funding is picking up the slack. And I think it's going to get bigger unless fuel taxes are raised.

"About 45 percent of all highway spending comes from the trust fund." (referring to the Highway Trust Fund - Fox News)

"The bulk of highway and road funding, about 55%, comes from a combination of state and federal gasoline taxes. The rest generally comes from vehicle registrations, drivers' license fees, bonds and other public borrowing." WSJ via Planetizen

Not really on point but this misallocation statement was entertaining:

"Over the past 50 years, the motorists in Alaska have received six times as much from the federal highway trust fund as they have paid into it." Heritage Foundation

The Highway Trust Fund has a bunch of problems - more fuel efficient cars means less money generated per mile traveled, purchasing power has declined while construction costs have risen, and the Minneapolis bridge collapse focused many people on an aging highway infrastructure (link).

gagrice (Dec 05, 2007 8:44 pm)

#75 of 75: Re: Motorcycle... [steve_] by gagrice; Dec 05, 2007 (8:44 pm)

Replying to: steve_ (Dec 05, 2007 12:21 pm)

"Over the past 50 years, the motorists in Alaska have received six times as much from the federal highway trust fund as they have paid into it."

You would think that Alaska would have better roads. That new Seward Highway is horrible. Alaska attracts a lot of shyster type contractors. Build it and head South, never to be heard from again. Then they probably have sent more legislators to prison in the last few years of any state. Maybe they are just cleaning house. Something the other 49 states and Congress needs to do.

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