August 26, 2023 – Why does Texas pay 20 cents on the dollar to build new federal-aid highways, but California only pays 16.4 cents on the dollar? The answer is a 102-year-old law that stopped making sense almost 90 years ago, but which remains on the books.
August 18, 2023 – The Federal Highway Administration this week announced the winners of $196 million in federal grant money for a new program to provide fish crossings on federal-aid highways (below-grade, of course).
August 17, 2023 – Quick, what’s the most expensive mass transit project currently under consideration? The answer depends if you are looking at total project cost, or per-rider capital cost.
August 4, 2023 – A new GAO report analyzes how states and metro planning organizations currently estimate and analyze greenhouse gas emissions of transportation systems and projects.
August 4, 2023 – For decades (starting in the 1980s), a group of states, mostly from the Sun Belt, habitually complained that they paid much more in taxes into the Highway Trust Fund than they received in highway spending.
July 28, 2023 – President Biden this week nominated J. Todd Inman, former Chief of Staff to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, to be a member of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
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July 28, 2023 – The Department of Transportation issued a final rule this week mandating that airlines upgrade the lavatories in their single-aisle jetliners so that at least one restroom per plane is large enough for a wheelchair-bound person and an attendant to fit inside at the same time, with the door closed.
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