Washington Test-Drives a New Driving Fee

“This isn't something you can turn on overnight — you’ve got a 12- to 15-year lag, so the longer we wait to start implementing this, it's going to be even longer before we can start getting revenue from it,” said Rob Atkinson, president of Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a science and technology think tank, who chaired a 2009 panel that studied funding options for infrastructure.