York County team’s ideas on raising revenue help it win PennDOT’s regional Innovations Challenge
Updated Mar 16, 2021;
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) on Tuesday announced that a team of students from Dover Area School District in York County has been selected as the PennDOT District 8 winner for its fourth Innovations Challenge.
Under the team name “Roadwork Ahead,” the Dover team was led by faculty adviser Emily Miller with team members Keegan Fobes and Hailie Miller, a press release said, adding:
Since last fall, students have been working to solve this year’s challenge that asked students to develop an innovative and implementable solution that helps address Pennsylvania’s transportation revenue shortfall by identifying potential new funding streams, aside from additional gas taxes, tolls or mileage-based user fees, to help ensure adequate transportation funding for the future.
In the 1960s, as the Interstate highways made their way through the middle of our cities, a growing number of city-dwellers rose up in protest to fight their construction. The urbanites lost many of the fights in the “freeway revolt,” but they did win several big ones, and their effort forced the rethinking of the worth of urban freeways that continues to this day.
The fight also continues, but on different terrain. This time, it’s freeway widening projects that are drawing the ire of urban advocacy groups. In both Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, civic activists are pushing back against plans to widen freeways, and not just in the big cities. Meanwhile, in Texas, the Harris County government is suing to stop the widening and relocation of I-45 through the city.
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