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FRA Establishes CIG-Like "Pipeline" for Intercity Rail Corridors

May 20, 2022

May 20, 2022 | Jeff Davis

May 20, 2022 - Last Friday, the Federal Railroad Administration published a notice establishing a program to provide periodic evaluation...

New Amtrak Nominees May Overbalance Board Towards Northeast Corridor

May 6, 2022

May 6, 2022 | Jeff Davis

April 6, 2022 - If all five of President Biden's new nominees for the Amtrak Board of Directors are confirmed,...

Biden to Nominate 5 Amtrak Board Members

April 29, 2022

April 29, 2022 | Jeff Davis

April 29, 2022 - In a 3 p.m. Friday afternoon announcement, the White House sent out a news release stating...

Amtrak's FY23 Budget Adheres to IIJA Authorizations

April 22, 2022

April 22, 2022 | Jeff Davis

April 22, 2022 - Amtrak has released its own request for federal appropriations for fiscal year 2023, separate from the...

Amtrak Concedes Perpetual $1 Billion/Year Operating Losses

April 21, 2022

April 21, 2022 | Jeff Davis

April 21, 2022 - Amtrak's new budget documents call for $1 billion per year operating losses as far as can...

T&I Hearing Looks at Expanded Intercity Passenger Rail

December 10, 2021

December 10, 2021 | Brianne Eby

December 10, 2021 - On Thursday, December 9, the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee held...

Op-Ed: Recognizing the Reasons for Railroad Deaths

October 8, 2021

October 8, 2021 | Paul Lewis, Robert Puentes

October 8, 2021 - While we do not yet know the precise cause of the recent Amtrak derailment in Montana,...

Train derailments like the Montana incident are rare, but other railroad-related deaths are on the rise

October 1, 2021

October 1, 2021 | Paul Lewis

“The response that we’re seeing to the Montana crash is showing that the existing standards that we have are in...

Safer Railroading: A Guide Toward Targeted Safety Policy

September 29, 2021

September 29, 2021 | Paul Lewis

Railroads are among the safest modes of transportation for workers, riders, and the public. Strong federal standards for railroad track...

A big bet on Amtrak

September 5, 2021

September 5, 2021 | Jeff Davis

That's "way more than any other" transportation secretary has ever been given, said Jeff Davis of the Eno Center for...

The infrastructure bill is more about maintaining train service than upgrading it

August 15, 2021

August 15, 2021 | Robert Puentes

"Amtrak was set up to fail," Robert Puentes, CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation told CNN Business. "It wasn't...

10 things to know about the infrastructure bill

August 4, 2021

August 4, 2021 | Jeff Davis

The bill would borrow some $118 billion from general revenue to meet the needs of the nation’s highways, bringing the...