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CarGuru > Driving > Road tax increase for VA? 27 April 2005 18:30:07
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Road tax increase for VA?

John Lansford 27 April 2005 18:30:07
 http://www.washingto­npost.com/wp-dyn/con­tent/article/2005/04­/26/AR2005042601365.­html

Republican gubernatorial hopeful Jerry W. Kilgore yesterday proposed
creating regional transportation authorities that would have the power
to put tax increases before voters, as part of his plan to improve
Virginia's road and rail networks.

The former state attorney general said that creating the authorities
would move decision-making away from state lawmakers and bureaucrats
by giving local leaders the power to make planning decisions and fund
projects, through ballot measures to raise taxes, highway tolls or
fees.

...

Kilgore's plan also includes increasing fines for drunk drivers,
aggressive drivers and habitual offenders, a proposal that he said
could raise as much as $100 million a year. A similar plan was killed
during this year's General Assembly session by legislators who thought
the penalties too harsh.

Kilgore said he also supports private investment in road projects,
improved transportation technology and a constitutional amendment
prohibiting use of the state's Transportation Trust Fund for other
priorities.

He said he would use extra revenue in the state's general fund from a
growing economy to pay for transportation projects, an approach
criticized by his likely Democratic opponent, Lt. Gov. Timothy M.
Kaine.

...

Localizing transportation funding and planning is an idea that is
gaining currency across Virginia, one of only a handful of states that
owns and operates virtually all its roads. Some state legislators like
the idea because it would relieve the state of a chunk of its
road-building burdens, while some local leaders believe they can build
projects more quickly and better on their own.

A regional transportation authority was created in Northern Virginia
in 2002 in anticipation of funds that would be raised from the tax
increases, but without money the authority has had little real power
to improve transportation.

David F. Snyder, a Falls Church City Council member and chairman of
the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, said the ability to
place referendums on the ballot would allow Northern Virginians "to
control our own destiny, to decide what it is we spend our money on
and how we want to spend it. It's a very positive development for
Northern Virginia and offers the only hope to get out of the
transportation mess we're in."

Snyder added that he thought a regional tax increase would pass in
Northern Virginia if local residents were involved in the process of
deciding how much money to raise and where to spend it.

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HoustonFreeways 27 April 2005 18:30:07 [ permanent link ]
 In Texas the agencies are called Regional Mobility Authorities, which were
first authorized 2 or 4 years ago. So far only one active RMA has been
created (Austin). There may be others I'm not aware of. The problem is that
the only funding mechanism available to RMAs is tolling, consistent with
Governor Perry's plan to turn Texas into the toll road capital of the world.
There are bills in the Texas legislature right now to give RMAs more funding
options, but Perry's toll henchmen are blocking the bills.

It sounds like the Virginia plan gives localities more options, so Virginia
is definitely on the right track.

Texas is also using traffic fines to fund the Texas Mobility bonds, which
should be issued very soon and will be around $4 billion over the next few
years.


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