Northstar rail runs into trouble in Anoka County
“A lot of regions are grappling with some of the same challenges,” said Paul Lewis, policy director at the Eno Center for Transportation, a Washington, D.C., think tank.
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By Paul Lewis
“A lot of regions are grappling with some of the same challenges,” said Paul Lewis, policy director at the Eno Center for Transportation, a Washington, D.C., think tank.
By Jeff Davis
October 29, 2021 – In the Byzantine budget reconciliation process, one of the big prohibitions is that each committee’s contribution to the bill has to be deficit-neutral after the scorekeeping period covered by the bill (in this case, ten years). For the Ways and Means Committee, this is less of a problem, since they are raising taxes to cover not only their own spending, but most (if not all) of the other spending in the bill, and can run those taxes as long as they need to.
October 8, 2021 – While we do not yet know the precise cause of the recent Amtrak derailment in Montana, the response was swift. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) immediately dispatched a team to investigate the incident which should take about a month. Coverage of the three passenger deaths is robust and spotlights an ongoing concern about railroad safety in the United States. But this type of wreck, while certainty tragic, is quite rare and most fatalities on the rails are the result of other causes.
By Paul Lewis
“The response that we’re seeing to the Montana crash is showing that the existing standards that we have are in some respects working. We’re going to try to find the root cause and a solution…
By Paul Lewis
“A new strategy and framework is needed to address the most significant safety issues facing railroads,” say authors Paul Lewis of the Eno Center for Transportation and Independent Consultant Malcolm Kenton.’
By Paul Lewis
Railroads are among the safest modes of transportation for workers, riders, and the public. Strong federal standards for railroad track and operations, technological investments like positive train control, and communities’ infrastructure improvements have yielded significant…
This webinar discusses the findings from Eno’s report: Safer Railroading: A Guide Toward Targeted Safety Policy. According to Eno’s newest report, railroads are among the safest modes of transportation for […]
In July 2021, the Northeast Corridor Commission released CONNECT NEC 2035 (C35), the most ambitious reinvestment program in the Northeast Corridor’s history and a new way of planning: a multi-agency, […]
By Jeff Davis
That’s “way more than any other” transportation secretary has ever been given, said Jeff Davis of the Eno Center for Transportation.
“The commuter railroads have been really hammered during the pandemic,” said Robert Puentes, president of the Eno Center for Transportation in Washington. “It’s hard to overstate the transformations that are happening because of this pandemic.”
American rail projects with minimal tunneling take about six months longer to complete than similar non-U.S. projects, while all-underground construction can take nearly a year and a half longer to build than abroad, according to…
“Amtrak was set up to fail,” Robert Puentes, CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation told CNN Business. “It wasn’t designed to last as long as it has.”
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