Comments on: A Few Words on Transportation User Fees http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/09/17/a-few-words-on-user-fees/ Your daily source for national transportation policy news and analysis. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Darren http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/09/17/a-few-words-on-user-fees/comment-page-1/#comment-82771 Darren Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:44:02 +0000 http://dc.streetsblog.org/?p=28411#comment-82771 No quibble with your point, but i think your numbers are wrong. Your mileage and revenue is based on "Interstates" only. Your outlay is based on what goes out for all Highways, which is a catch-all term that describes every public road that is funded with a federal match (state routes, arterials, etc). Interstate is just the roads with the blue/red signs, like I-95. Interstate highway funding is 'only' in the $5B neighborhood these days, which works out to about 17 cents a gallon, in spitting distance to the 14.5 cents that comes out of the gas tax for roads. No quibble with your point, but i think your numbers are wrong. Your mileage and revenue is based on “Interstates” only. Your outlay is based on what goes out for all Highways, which is a catch-all term that describes every public road that is funded with a federal match (state routes, arterials, etc). Interstate is just the roads with the blue/red signs, like I-95.

Interstate highway funding is ‘only’ in the $5B neighborhood these days, which works out to about 17 cents a gallon, in spitting distance to the 14.5 cents that comes out of the gas tax for roads.

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