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Eight States Testing User-Based Mechanisms for Highway Funding

Eight States Testing User-Based Mechanisms for Highway Funding The FHWA has awarded $18.7 million in “Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives” grants to multiple projects that will test new user-based funding methods for highways and bridges March 16, 2021 Adobe Stock/Vitalii Established in 1956, the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) uses the federally established gas tax to help fund our nation s roads, bridges and highways. Each time you fill up your gas tank, you are helping to pay for the roads you re using. In fact, roughly 51% of road and bridge projects in the United States are funded through the use of the HTF.  The issue with this driver funded program however, is that the current gas tax hasn t been raised since 1993 and the user fee has not been indexed for inflation. Add to that the fact that cars are increasing in fuel economy and consumers are leaning more toward hybrid vehicles, and we re talking big trouble for infrastructure funding.

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