Doubt greets Perdue’s ‘mobility fund’ (News and Observer)
Gov. Bev Perdue is pushing legislators to include a new transportation fund in the state budget, but they’re reluctant to go along.
The Senate did not include the new spending in its budget, and its future in the House is uncertain.
Perdue wants to use the fund to replace the […]
Priorities Compete for Place in Budget (Greensboro News and Record) (exerpt)
Meanwhile, Gov. Bev Perdue wasn’t going to let her idea to create a new “Mobility Fund” for high-need, high-cost road projects die. From the story:
As proposed, the fund would take in up to $300 million per year by 2013 through a combination of fees on […]
Perdue says new N.C. highway projects fund needed (Associated Press)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Mayors joined Gov. Beverly Perdue on Monday to urge the Legislature to create this year a dedicated fund to build urgent road and other transportation projects they say are needed to keep the state’s economic engines roaring in the decades ahead.
Perdue wants […]
The Governor thanked the mayors for coming to the press conference. Listen here.
Then Q&A from the press conference. Listen here.
NC governor, mayors lobby for transportation fund (The Associated Press )
Gov. Beverly Perdue and North Carolina mayors aren’t giving up on her effort to set aside extra money to build critical transportation projects that have been slowed down over the years.
Perdue and mayors from Asheville to Newport scheduled a Monday news conference off Interstate 40 […]
Monday morning memo: House budget, transportation funding, etc… (Greensboro News and Record)
As the week gets going, here’s what’s on tap in Raleigh this Monday
Gov. Bev Perdue apparently noticed that the Senate didn’t include her mobility fund (and an associated increase car registration fees) in the chamber’s version of the budget. She’ll be standing on the […]
Mayors push for ‘mobility fund’ (Durham Herald Sun)
DURHAM — A group chaired by Mayor Bill Bell has joined Gov. Beverly Perdue and the N.C. Department of Transportation in pushing for the creation of a new “mobility fund” local officials could draw on to pay for major road and transit projects.
But the idea has so far […]
Senate shuns Perdue plea for road fund (News and Observer)
Last week, the state Senate quietly ignored Gov. Bev Perdue’s $94.6 million proposal to establish a fund that would help fix the Yadkin River bridge on Interstate 85 now – and tackle other big statewide transportation problems later.
The $19 billion budget approved by the Senate last […]
While the Governor and mayors held a press conference in support of the NC Mobility Fund just hours before, the House leadership just announced they do not plan include the Fund in their budget.
We are asking that you register your support for the NC Mobility Fund by sending your comments to the NC House via the website […]
Modifications Sought by Oberstar Added to Tax Extenders Bill (AASHTO)
The House of Representatives could vote as early as Tuesday on a package of tax extensions that will include language altering how nearly $1 billion in federal highway funds is distributed among states.
House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee James Oberstar, D-Minnesota, told the media this […]
