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Road Pricing Advocate. Ender of congestion. Inventor of the privacy shield for use of financial grade GPS for anonymous travel in the gas-tax-less, road use charging future. Founder of skymetercorp.com. Father of a six year old who will never have to pay gas-tax.
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Posted Thu, May 28, 3:12 a.m.
While this article deserves all the readership it can get, it tip-toes too quietly to the truth. VMT charging on the entire network is needed now, not "eventually". "Now" means to start now and be done in 12 years. Talk to Congressman Oberstar about waiting and studying and pondering. You ...
MOREPosted Thu, Apr 2, 11:22 p.m.
Because I am a full-network, Road Use Charging (RUC) advocate (pay every mile driven and end the fuel tax), I prefer to rush headlong into the user-pay world with the revenue split in some network-optimizing way between road and transit financing. So I have long thought that PPPs are simply ...
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