The Highway Trust Fund, which disburses federal funds to build and maintain road and transit projects, faces a shortfall that will exhaust the fund shortly after the 2014 extension of the Moving ...

Not so. For starters, the Highway Trust Fund finances only a portion of road and mass transit construction. At $110 billion in 2013, state and local spending on roads is about double the level of ...

NAT SOUNDá TRACK POTHOLE, CRACKS, AND UNEVEN PAVEMENT PLAGUE CONTINUE TO PLAGUE ROADWAYS HERE IN MISSISSIPPI, AND WITH THE ...

Indiana passed a bill authorizing the state to request FHWA approval for toll lanes on its interstate highways. It is the first state to authorize tolling for all its ...

Nearly all of that federal money comes from the Highway Trust Fund. Created in 1956 to finance the new interstate highway system, the fund relies on a federal gasoline tax of 18.4 cents per gallon ...

Achieving even the modest goal of a 90.5 percent share relied entirely on the proposition that the highway trust fund would each year spend more than it received in federal fuel tax revenues"with ...

The Transportation Department on Friday, Sept. 5 said the Highway Trust Fund will go broke by the end of the month.

Although critical to the Highway Trust Fund’s short-term operations, government bailouts are not a long-term solution, nor do they address the underlying, multifaceted, and structural problem." 3 ...

With a massive road funding package hanging in the balance, top Oregon Democrats are reformulating the tax hikes that have ...

Oregon Democrats’ latest attempt at a massive road funding bill is headed to a floor vote – and this time it’s got at least ...

The Federal Highway Trust Fund is expected to run out of money by 2028 due to overspending. The Hearst Television National Investigative Unit found that since 2001, spending from the Highway Trust ...