![[Valid Atom 1.0]](valid-atom.png "Validate my Atom 1.0 feed")
Transportation Programs * USA - Bush Administration Proposes Reform
Washington,DC,USA -Automotive Digest -30 July 2008: -- US Transportation Secretary Mary Peters announced reform of programs... Including promises to address congestion, reward innovation, consolidate federal programs, and $400B+ available worldwide for infrastructure investments from private sector... Funding would rely less on fuel taxes and more on commercial capital. Metropolitan Innovation Fund rewards mixing of funds... Bush administration plans to take advantage of that availability. Intends to streamline federal review process for new highway and transit projects. But private investment highly contested and controversial throughout transportation industry... Promotes dynamic pricing of highways, effective transit investments, new traffic technologies... Administration hopes to remove restrictions on congestion pricing too. Congestion pricing would charge vehicles for entering areas when traffic is heavier... Proposal stresses increased flexibility for state and local leaders...
* Congress considers cash incentives for crash avoidance technology
Washington,DC,USA -Land Line Magazine -August 7, 2008: -- Truckers will be able to get a tax break on the purchase of crash-avoidance technology if a bill that was just introduced in the U.S. Senate becomes law... The bill – like one already introduced in the House – calls for tax credits of up to $3,500 per truck on the purchase of four specific types of crash-avoidance systems. The four systems are collision avoidance, lane departure warning, stability control and brake monitoring... The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, a group designed to unite state enforcement agencies and trucking industry officials on enforcement standards for federal regs and that spearheads the annual Roadcheck inspection blitz, is strongly in favor of the bill. CVSA Director of Government Affairs Richard Henderson said the legislation is designed to ensure that small trucking operations would be able to take advantage of the tax breaks...
Labels: transportation plans
posted by Unknown @ 8:33 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home