To Save Our Infrastructure, Make Every Road a Toll Road

More than a decade ago, Congress realized the funding problem was becoming intractable, so they recruited a bipartisan, independent commission of experts to find solutions. “We dug into the analysis on gas taxes, looked at electric vehicle adoption rates, and sort of came to the Vehicle Miles Traveled tax as the obvious conclusion,” ITIF President Rob Atkinson, who led the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission, told Wired.