As we continue to move forward towards solving Pennsylvania's transportation funding crisis, more information on how to fund both highway and transit becomes available. In this weekends Philadelphia Inquirer there was an article focusing on transit funding throughout the U.S.

The article focuses on how other transit agencies are funded and how in some areas the state pays zero towards transit while different local taxes support the initiatives. In New York, where transit does very well, they have zero dollars coming from the federal government. As we continue to move forward in trying to solve our funding crisis focusing on what other areas are doing is important and all scenarios that are successful should be evaluated for our continued economic prosperity.

To read the Inquirer story click here...

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Preliminary findings of the PA Turnpike Lease

As we move forward attempting to solve our upcoming funding shortfall for transportation in Pennsylvania, the governor's office has released the preliminary findings from Morgan Stanley on the various funding proposals. This report focuses on a long term lease of the PA turnpike, a public corporation/leveraging and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commissions own proposal. The reports shows that the long term lease scenario has the most potential for immediate revenue and that the turnpike commissions proposal will have the most impact on the commuters of the turnpike.

Since this publication was released there have been many reports for and against its findings. Stay tuned to the blog and and our new RSS feeds for the most up to date information. To read the full report click here...

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