Construction Reporter |
By: Garry Boulard | November 3, 2017
With a national need for updated highway, railroad, and port infrastructure ever increasing, a California representative has come up with a new way to pay for it all.
“We know that there are billions of dollars of investments we need in freight-centric projects - from grade separations to truck lanes to rail connections,” says Alan Lowenthal, who has recently introduced legislation calling for a 1 percent excise tax on all ground transportation of freight.
“My bill would create a longterm funding source to make these investments,” says Lowenthal of his National Multimodal and Sustainable Freight Infrastructure Act, also known as House Resolution 3001. The legislation would additionally, Lowenthal continues, “make targeted investments in zeroemissions freight technology to mitigate the environmental and public health effects of goods movements.”
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