October 2, 2020 – When the current setbacks from COVID-19 inevitably subside, successful regions will still need high performing transit in the future. This is all the more reason why Eno’s ongoing project analyzing cost and timeline drivers affecting delivery of public transit projects is so important.
October 2, 2020 – Following is a general overview of the $77 billion in transportation aid provided by the revised coronavirus aid bill passed by House Democrats this week.
October 2, 2020 – At 1 a.m. on October 1, President Trump signed into law a 72-day stopgap appropriations bill (H.R. 8337) for fiscal year 2021 that also incorporated a one-year extension of funding levels under the FAST Act of 2015, all of which had otherwise expired an hour earlier.
October 2, 2020 – U.S. airlines commenced plans to lay off over 30,000 employees yesterday, following the expiration of the no-layoffs clause accompanying the $32 billion in aviation sector aid enacted in the CARES Act in March 2020. A further infusion of federal aid in exchange for six more months of the no-layoffs policy was discussed in Congress this week, but never materialized.
October 2, 2020 – The Labor Department released the monthly jobs report for September 2020 this morning, showing that the economy created another 41,400 jobs in the transportation sector in September.
October 2, 2020 – The Treasury Department announced this week that seven passenger airlines had closed loans under the authority provided in the March 2020 CARES Act, totaling at least $13 billion out of the $25 billion in allowable loan authority.
Wednesday, October 7 – Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation – full committee hearing on the status of the U.S. passenger and freight rail network (witness list here) – 10:00 a.m., SR-253 Russell. (The House is not expected to return to D.C. until after the elections. But Senators may have to…
October 1, 2020 – The new COVID aid bill pending in the House would provide more transit aid, and spread it far more widely, than the earlier House proposal from four months ago.
September 25, 2020 – The House of Representatives has passed a one-year extension of the FAST Act by a wide bipartisan vote, and the Senate is set to agree next week.
September 25, 2020 – There has never been another year quite like this one. But through it all, core values have been tested, reaffirmed, and reinforced. Even with ridership down sharply, millions of people are still moving on transit, and transit continues to be essential to city living. Public transportation continues as a strategy to restore urban communities that will be stronger, more sustainable, more resilient, and more equitable.