RTA and several of our member chambers of commerce , in concert with our partners the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina and the Triangle-J Council of Governments , have initiated a 2022 campaign to support significant federal funding to replace, relocate, and lengthen the primary runway at RDU.
The transition to EVs – and to hybrid vehicles and increased fuel efficiency overall – means that the days of the gas tax effectively funding our roadways are numbered, and that the N.C. Department of Transportation will need new, stable revenue streams to keep our state moving forward.
Since 2014, NCDOT has charged a fee for EVs, since they cannot pay fuel taxes. The organized regional and statewide business community is elevating a proposal to modernize state highway funding, based on that framework, in the form of a vehicle registration-based access user fee.