Stakeholders Advocate Action on Biden’s Infrastructure Plan April 7, 2021 | Jeff Davis “It’s got a chance but threading the needle in a six vote majority House and a 50-50 Senate is awfully...
Charging Stations Could Drive Electric Vehicles Into a Wall April 2, 2021 | Jeff Davis “I can’t see the federal government funding five different networks of different kinds of charging stations; it seems inefficient to...
America Has Long Favored Cars Over Trains and Buses. Can Biden Change That? April 2, 2021 | Paul Lewis “When a lot of money is raining down from the top, states and localities will do whatever they can to...
White House plan calls for large expansion of federal government’s role in transportation March 31, 2021 | Jeff Davis The Biden administration is calling for $365 billion in highway spending, $189 billion for transit and $94 billion for rail...
Can Congress fix I-80? How Biden’s expected infrastructure plan could impact Sacramento March 30, 2021 | Paul Lewis Saying a bridge is deficient “doesn’t mean the bridge is about to fall down. That kind of thing is very...
A gas tax? A mileage tax? Biden wary of user fees to pay for roads, bridges and highways March 30, 2021 | Jeff Davis Eno's Jeff Davis suggests that if the government isn’t willing to increase taxes on highway users, it should reduce spending...
What’s Doable If Democrats Go It Alone on Infrastructure March 18, 2021 | Jeff Davis Congress could tweak the rate of the motor fuels tax -- the main source of money for the Highway Trust...
Next on Democrats’ agenda, a “holistic” infrastructure bill March 15, 2021 | Jeff Davis “Infrastructure is more of a long-term economic stimulus than a short-term economic stimulus, because capital programs like building infrastructure tend...
Proceed With Caution Regarding Transportation Earmarks, Stakeholders Say March 15, 2021 | Jeff Davis Jeff Davis hopes lawmakers will tread cautiously. “I just hope they can restrain themselves,” he said.
Transportation gets a big boost in recovery package but still faces an uncertain future March 12, 2021 | Jeff Davis Jeff Davis said funding in the new measure will provide transit agencies with enough money to weather the pandemic, providing...
Democrats to Struggle Going ‘Solo’ on Main Parts of Highway Bill March 11, 2021 | Jeff Davis Jeff Davis said highway bills passed using regular order have been able to inject funding into the highway trust fund...
Biden Turns Attention to $2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Now That COVID Stimulus Is Out Of The Way March 10, 2021 | Robert Puentes "We haven't made a lot of progress on big infrastructure projects in recent years," said Rob Puentes. "There is a...
