Financing Transportation Infrastructure
Robert Poole, Director of Transportation Studies at the Reason Public Policy Institute, addresses the need for California to look at alternative financing vehicles for transportation projects.
With federal and state dollars drying up for transportation investment, the time has come for more creative financing mechanisms to suport the construction or modernization of our precious infrastructure. In this piece written for MIR, Robert Poole, Director of Transportation Studies at the Reason Public Policy Institute, looks to recent efforts to increase the profile of tolling options in Texas and urges Californias policymakers to do the same.
Thanks to Larry Segal
Published on Tuesday, May 4, 2004 in
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