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Talking Headways Podcast: Uber and the Case of the Hidden Gas Tax

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 11, 2014 | No Comments

Uber is celebrating. DC passed an Uber-legalization law that Uber thinks cities the world over should follow. The problem is, most cities have much more tightly regulated taxi industries than DC, with a far higher cost of entry. In those cases, letting Uber get away with providing taxi services while complying with none of the […]

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With No Transport Funding Fix, U.S. DOT to Cut State Payments Next Month

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 2, 2014 | No Comments

State transportation departments could see the federal funding they receive pared back as early as a few weeks from now if Congress doesn’t come up with a transportation funding solution. A “cash management plan” to deal with the impending shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund — which actually pays for transit, biking, and walking projects […]