April 3, 2020 – The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly affected how we are accomplishing work at Eno. But our mission to shape public debate on critical multimodal transportation issues and build an innovative network of transportation professionals has not changed.
April 3, 2020 – If Congress is to address coronavirus response via new spending on infrastructure, the best way to spend that money would be to address to several converging trends.
April 3, 2020 – This week, NHTSA and the EPA issued their long-awaited final rule that rolls back increases in motor vehicle fuel economy standards planned by the Obama Administration – but it doesn’t roll them back as much as the White House originally wanted.
April 3, 2020 – Seven days after President Trump signed the $2+ trillion coronavirus response bill (H.R. 748) into law, the Treasury Department and the Transportation Department are poised to start distributing some of the $88 billion in financial relief provided by that law for the aviation sector as early as next week.
April 2, 2020 – What effect is the coronavirus’s effect on demand for travel likely to have on the Highway Trust Fund, which is funded by gasoline and diesel fuel excise taxes, as well as several taxes on the trucking industry?
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April 2, 2020 – On March 31, the Federal Railroad Administration published in the Federal Register a set of proposed metrics and standards for judging Amtrak’s on-time performance and other factors.
April 2, 2020 – Earlier today (a day ahead of schedule), the Federal Transit Administration announced the apportionment and allocation of $24.925 billion in emergency appropriations to mass transit agencies across the country.
April 2, 2020 – The CARES Act signed into law on March 27 provides $25B in necessary funding for transit and more than $1B for Amtrak, but omits funding for the Section 5310 program that people with disabilities rely on.
April 1, 2020 – House Democratic leaders announced at a press conference today that they hope to include their $760 billion, five-year infrastructure framework they unveiled in late January as part of the next coronavirus response legislation when Congress reconvenes in late April (or whenever it is).