https://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.png00Jeff Davishttps://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.pngJeff Davis2015-09-08 01:53:182023-04-17 07:06:09EPW Chair Boxer To Retire From Congress
Bridges, Federal Funding, Federal Governance, Fuel tax, Highway Trust Fund, Public transit, Streets
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In the weeks leading up to the federal surface transportation vote on a short-term extension, a few members of Congress started touting that we will have a five-year bill soon. But it comes with a caveat: flat-funding for roads, bridges and transit systems.
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Accessibility, Federal Funding, Federal Governance, Governance, Highways, Public transit
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It has been six years since the transportation community had the opportunity to mull over a six-year transportation bill written by a Congressional Committee. The new DRIVE (Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy) Act, from the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and the Surface Transportation Assistance Act, which came from Chairman Jim Oberstar and the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, have one important thing in common – they are coming out of an authorizing committee with no indication that there is any financing in place to pay for them. Congress would need to come up with at least $100 billion to fund this new long-term bill. This means that enacting the DRIVE Act into law is a long shot.
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July 22, 2015 – Section 80003 of the Senate DRIVE Act now provides for a clean and complete shutoff of all new HTF obligations (except for administrative overhead, safety activities, and items exempt from obligation limitation) that is predicted to take effect on October 1, 2018. The idea is that this will force Congress to provide a huge tranche of new money for the HTF halfway through the bill while continuing to fund the policies and promises made by the bill.
Such “trigger” or “re-opener” provisions are not new to surface transportation legislations. Let’s take a walk down memory lane over the last 25 years…
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In a recent article published in Innovation NewsBrief entitled “A Conservative Vision for the Future of the Highway Trust Fund,” Ken Orski shared heartening data, indicating that the states are stepping up to fill the transportation funding gap left by a stagnated federal program. According to Mr. Orski, several states…
https://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Transpo-Funding-480x319-8.jpg319480Elizabeth Bastianhttps://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.pngElizabeth Bastian2015-07-10 18:05:522023-04-17 07:09:13The State of Transportation Funding: A Realistic Examination of Pseudo-Federalism
