NY Times: Congress Grapples, Again, With How to Pay for Transportation Projects

From NY Times:

It could wind up spending nearly 10 times as much money on transportation projects as the federal stimulus bill, but outside of Washington, where it has prompted a frenzy of politicking, it has attracted less than a 10th of the attention.  That measure, the federal transportation bill, could spend as much as $450 billion on road and transit projects over the next six years, after the current law expires in September.  The most contentious question — how to pay for it all — took on a new urgency this week when officials announced that the source of most transportation money would run dry this summer for the second year in a row.