September 11, 2020 – As legislators and Congressional staff negotiate the parameters of what increasingly looks like a one-year extension of the FAST Act, the Trump Administration’s estimate of how much extra money the Highway Trust Fund will require to get through another year is unusually divergent from Congress’s estimate.
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(Clicking on hyperlinks in the text will take you to original source documents, many of which are from the Eisenhower Library or other National Archives facilities and have never before been available online.) St. Lawrence Seaway When President Eisenhower took office, proposals to create a system of locks and dams…
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August 28, 2020 – August is the time for getting caught up on long-term projects, and this week marks the conclusion of my looks back at how Harry S. Truman’s Administration redefined what “transportation” means in terms of public policy.
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August 28, 2020 – The Federal Highway Administration reported last week that traffic on U.S. roads in June 2020 was 13.0 percent below the 2019 levels. This is a significant recovery from the COVID-lockdown peak of -40.2 percent in April, which rebounded to -25.7 percent in May.
August 28, 2020 – Today, the Federal Highway Administration distributed an additional $4.8 billion in fiscal 2020 federal-aid highway funding to states as part of the “use-it-or-lose-it-by-September-30” August redistribution process.
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August 14, 2020 – How should the federal government distribute the next round of COVID-19 aid to mass transit agencies, and how do the dollar amounts being discussed compare to actual needs?
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