
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
The state uses the billions raised from the gas tax every year to pay for the constant work of freeway and highway maintenance and new road construction. But the gas tax faces a reckoning. Newer vehicles are ever-more fuel efficient, meaning less revenue is raised from taxing the fuel that’s pumped into them. So the state could eventually move to a model where drivers pay a fee for every mile they travel.
Reporter: Saul Gonzalez, The California Report
A $10 billion bond for California’s schools will go before voters this November. If it passes, the multi-billion dollar bond would pay for repairs and upgrades at thousands of K-12 school and community college buildings across California.
Reporter: Carolyn Jones, CalMatters
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
4.5
379379 ratings
The state uses the billions raised from the gas tax every year to pay for the constant work of freeway and highway maintenance and new road construction. But the gas tax faces a reckoning. Newer vehicles are ever-more fuel efficient, meaning less revenue is raised from taxing the fuel that’s pumped into them. So the state could eventually move to a model where drivers pay a fee for every mile they travel.
Reporter: Saul Gonzalez, The California Report
A $10 billion bond for California’s schools will go before voters this November. If it passes, the multi-billion dollar bond would pay for repairs and upgrades at thousands of K-12 school and community college buildings across California.
Reporter: Carolyn Jones, CalMatters
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
700 Listeners
38,189 Listeners
59 Listeners
1,019 Listeners
399 Listeners
25,864 Listeners
245 Listeners
423 Listeners
1,043 Listeners
107 Listeners
111,917 Listeners
56,231 Listeners
129 Listeners
180 Listeners
430 Listeners
16,043 Listeners
1,506 Listeners
6,066 Listeners
85 Listeners
541 Listeners