5/27/15

Heitkamp: federal gas tax hike unlikely

The Heartland Expressway is part of the Ports to Plains concept: a proposed 4-lane highway from Mexico to Canada.
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., met in Bismarck with local leaders, business leaders and union officials to gather information on their priorities on federal highway funding. “The big issue for the next couple months is what are we going to do with good transportation funding. If we are going to fund our highways, we have got to find a funding source,” Heitkamp said. The Highway Trust Fund is largely financed by a federal tax of 18.4 cents per gallon of gasoline and 24.4 cents per gallon on diesel fuel and other related excise taxes. [Bismarck Tribune]
South Dakota has completed the Rapid City to Nebraska border portion of the 70 miles per hour highway but the two lane US85 north of Belle Fourche to North Dakota is crumbling due to oil patch traffic.

Nebraska has completed a 47-mile segment of 4-lane on NE71 from Scottsbluff to Kimball where it joins I-80.

The annual meeting of the Heartland Expressway Association is today (Wednesday) in Chadron, Nebraska.

Posted by at
piled in ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)