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You are here: Home1 / Issue: Week of April 8, 2019

Week of April 8, 2019

FY20, Highway Trust Fund, Transit
Apr 11, 2019 | Jeff Davis

FY20 Transit Apportionments Face Automatic 12 Percent Cut

April 11, 2019 - Yesterday, the Treasury Department announced that the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund has failed its forward-looking solvency test for fiscal year 2020. As a result, unless Congress passes...

Appropriations, FY20
Apr 12, 2019 | Jeff Davis

Chao Defends FY20 Budget Request Before House Appropriators

April 12, 2019 - U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao made her annual trip to the House Appropriations Committee this week to defend the Trump Administration's fiscal 2020 budget request for USDOT.

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Rail

Guest Op-Ed: Infrastructure - How to Make A Difference

April 12, 2019
April 12, 2019 | Richard Mudge
Large, regional infrastructure projects are key to unlocking future economic growth. One example is the AIRnet-21 proposal that would rebuild...
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Appropriations, Budget, FY20

House Adopts FY20 Spending Plan: Appropriations Bills to Move Forward in May

April 12, 2019
April 12, 2019 | Jeff Davis
April 12, 2019 - This week, the House of Representatives adopted a resolution giving the House Appropriations Committee a spending...
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Traffic Safety

T&I Looks at Street and Highway Safety

April 12, 2019
April 12, 2019 | Hayley Burton
April 12, 2019 - The House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit met April 9th for a hearing on street and...
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FY20, Transit

Why is the Mass Transit Account Less Solvent Than the Highway Account?

April 11, 2019
April 11, 2019 | Jeff Davis
April 11, 2019 - Congress has chosen to let mass transit spending get significantly farther ahead of its dedicated revenue...
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Maritime, Ports

House Hearing Pushes Case For Unlocking Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund

April 12, 2019
April 12, 2019 | Jeff Davis
April 12, 2019 - An April 10 hearing before the the House Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee discussed waterborne transportation...
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Unmanned Aerial Systems

Eno Launches Unmanned Aviation Systems (UAS) Project, Seeks Research Consultant

April 12, 2019
April 12, 2019 | Paul Lewis
The United States' national airspace is poised to host an increased presence of autonomous and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in...
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Transit

FTA Funds Five Small Starts, Speeds Up Funding Schedule for Caltrain, Chicago Core Capacity

April 12, 2019
April 12, 2019 | Jeff Davis
April 12, 2019 - The Federal Transit Administration on April 9 announced the allocation of $1.36 billion in appropriations for...
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Pre-1960s Attempts to Create a U.S. Department of Transportation - Part 2: the Federal Transportation Agency of 1946

April 9, 2019
April 9, 2019 | Jeff Davis
April 9, 2019 - In 1946, President Truman came very close to creating a Federal Transportation Agency to unite federal...

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