Also, I came across an interesting piece of reporting from Australia, where the trucking industry is facing a toll-road expansion project that is intended, say the road’s operators, to be financed in large part by an increase in truck tolls. The discussion, mind you, isn’t about whether to change the rules to allow more tolling projects — the nation down under has already gone there. I read it as a window into where we could be here in the U.S. if the fuel tax and the dedicated Highway Trust Fund aren’t preserved as our principle highway maintenance and expansion funding source. You can give the story a read here. And tell me how you think such a future would look — daydream or nightmare?
Toll road to the CSA SMS…
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