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Ways and Means Looks at Difficult Issue of Paying for Infrastructure

January 31, 2020/

Highway Trust Fund, Infrastructure, Infrastructure Bank, Mileage-Based User Fees, Tolls

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FHWA Gives $37.6B in FY20 Highway Funding to States

January 31, 2020/

Appropriations, FY20, Highways

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By Jeff Davis

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Senate Panel Looks at Build America Bureau and USDOT Rural Initiative

January 31, 2020/

Infrastructure

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By Alice Grossman

January 31, 2020 – A Senate hearing this week looked at the TIFIA Rural Projects Initiative (RPI), RRIF Express, and the new Rural Opportunities to Use Transportation for Economic Success (ROUTES) initiative.

Transportation Tax Receipt Forecast: Gasoline Still on the Decline, but Trucking and Airline Growth to Continue

January 31, 2020/

Aviation, Fuel tax, Highway Trust Fund

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By Jeff Davis

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USDOT Signs $790m Light Rail, Four Small Start Grant Agreements

January 31, 2020/

Appropriations, Transit

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By Jeff Davis

January 31, 2020 – In the last two weeks, the U.S. Department of Transportation has signed five grant agreements totaling $974 million in federal appropriations for new mass transit projects and extensions under the Federal Transit Administration’s Capital Investment Grant (CIG) program.

Senators Propose Naming USDOT Headquarters Building for William Coleman

January 31, 2020/

Federal Governance

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By Jeff Davis

January 31, 2020 – A bipartisan group of Senators this week introduced a bill to name the U.S. Department of Transportation headquarters building after former Secretary William Coleman, the first African-American SecDOT.

New Trust Fund Forecast Shows Just How Broken the 80-20 Highway-Transit Revenue Split Has Become

January 30, 2020/

Fuel tax, Highway Trust Fund

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By Jeff Davis

January 30, 2020 – As Congress starts debating infrastructure funding, any increase in motor fuels taxes will have to address the looming mass transit funding imbalance that did not exist when Congress was debating earlier tax increases.

Capitol Hill Events – Week of February 3, 2020

January 30, 2020//

Tuesday, February 4 – Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation – Subcommittee on Transportation and Safety – subcommittee hearing on stakeholder perspectives on trucking (witness list here) – 10:00 a.m., SH-216 Hart. Wednesday, February 5 – House Transportation and Infrastructure – Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials – subcommittee hearing…

CBO Projections Show Water Trust Fund Trends Diverging Sharply

January 30, 2020/

Federal Funding, Ports

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By Jeff Davis

January 30, 2020 – As part of its updated Budget and Economic Outlook release this week, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office updated its ten-year baseline projections for the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund and the Inland Waterways Trust Fund, and the latter is in bad shape.

Eno Welcomes New Advisors and Regents

January 29, 2020/

Eno Announcements

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By Karen Price

January 31, 2020 – The Eno Center for Transportation announces the appointment of a new slate of members for its Board of Advisors and its Board of Regents.