May 26, 2023 – A battle is brewing across the Hudson River and in the halls of Congress between New York and New Jersey over congestion pricing. Two legislators, one from each state, put forth their arguments.
May 12, 2023 – The Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center celebrated its 25th anniversary this month with remembrances of a transportation visionary along with an update on the Gateway Program (one of the most expensive transportation projects in the U.S).
March 31, 2023 – A subcommittee of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held a public hearing on March 28 to discuss implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).
March 24, 2022 – The Aviation Subcommittee of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held a public hearing on March 23 in preparation for providing funding levels and operating authority for the FAA, once again.
March 10, 2023 – On March 8, a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee held a hearing in Washington, D.C. to discuss pipeline safety. In the aftermath of last month’s freight train derailment in East Palestine, the subcommittee members and the pipeline experts who testified all agreed that there was no pipeline-related issue more important than safety.
January 20, 2023 – The “zero-fare” movement for transit services is now gaining momentum. Since 2020, nearly all trains, buses, and trams have been free throughout Luxembourg. In Kansas City, the streetcar is free, and in Seattle, Sound Transit started offering free fares for riders 18 years and younger.
January 6, 2023 – This week, the Transportation Research Board released the “Practitioner’s Guide to Bus Operator Workforce Management” a report that will help transit agencies better assess, plan, and implement their operator workforce management programs. The guide was written by the Eno Center for Transportation along with the International Transportation Learning Center, and Huber and Associates, Inc.
October 28, 2022 – Eno and the NYU Marron Institute have been trying to answer similar questions. Marron Institute has been assessing “Why do transit-infrastructure projects in New York cost 20 times more on a per kilometer basis than in Seoul?” while Eno has been asking: “Why does the U.S. pay more than a 50 percent premium to build at-grade and tunneled rail projects?”
September 15, 2022 – This week, the House Coast Guard and Maritime Subcommittee held a hearing to discuss how to better enforce federal cargo preference laws.
July 1, 2022 – Since the COVID pandemic began, transit agencies have been trying to figure out when all their riders will come back. Although local bus ridership is bouncing back from post-pandemic lows, it is still no more than 70 percent of pre-COVID levels at many transit agencies, including LA Metro in Los Angeles and NJ Transit in New Jersey.