U.S. mass transit providers and airport sponsors collectively spent another $2.6 billion of their $35 billion in special COVID-19 aid in August, according to new reporting from the Office of Management and Budget at usaspending.gov. The $35 billion was appropriated by the CARES Act in March 2020. An additional $9.9…
October 9, 2020 – Many U.S. airlines and contractors are continuing a massive wave of layoffs that began on October 1, and Congress appears unlikely to act on further financial support for airlines anytime soon.
October 9, 2020 – Eno will be conducting eight case studies of transit project delivery in the United States, Canada, and Europe. These studies will not only yield facts and details of specific projects, but also uncover the aspects of project delivery that happen behind the scenes.
October 9, 2020 – Data from the Energy Department through the end of September continue to support the hypothesis that, post-lockdowns, U.S. gasoline production has stabilized at a “new normal” level of around 10 percent below the levels from the corresponding week of 2020.
October 2, 2020 – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) continues to talk with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin about a possible compromise coronavirus aid package acceptable to Congressional Democrats and the Trump Administration, but the two sides remain far apart, and Congressional Republicans have yet to be convinced of the need for another multi-trillion-dollar package.
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.