June 7, 2024 – Even years are not an auspicious time to advance a congestion pricing program in New York because these are election years with campaigns for every U.S. House of Representative, State Assembly, and State Senate seat.
June 7, 2024 – By the 1850s, the U.S. had more than 17,000 miles of railroad tracks that were bringing coal, timber and agricultural products from previously inaccessible areas to rapidly growing markets.
May 24, 2024 – The day after President Zachary Taylor died in July 1850, his vice president, Millard Fillmore of New York, was sworn into office.
May 17, 2024 – As Zachary Taylor prepared his annual message to Congress in December 1849, he was considering transportation improvements that would connect California with the rest of the country.
May 10, 2024 – Before the civil war, the term “states rights” was often synonymous with slavery, and it directly related to federal policies regarding transportation improvements.
May 3, 2024 – Even though one-third of all docked bike share systems closed permanently at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of customers using bike share in the U.S. and Canada is now at an all-time high. Thank you, e-bikes.
April 26, 2024 – This is the ninth article in our series about transportation and U.S. presidents. Appropriately, given the length of William Henry Harrison’s term in office, it will also be our shortest.
April 19, 2024 – Martin Van Buren had a strong opinion about the federal government’s role in funding infrastructure projects (known at the time as “internal improvements.”)
April 5, 2024 – In his March 1825 inaugural address, President John Quincy Adams argued for an expansive use of federal resources, saying that the exercise of powers “is a duty as sacred and indispensable as the usurpation of powers not granted is criminal and odious.”
March 22, 2024 – President James Monroe’s waterway-focused transportation policies, summarized.