Federal, state, and local governments all play a significant role in funding $300 billion in annual transportation spending. The federal government supplies important capital funding for highways, transit systems, airports, waterways, and ports while also operating the nation’s air traffic control system. State and local governments have an equally important task to invest in and operate their transportation networks and rely on a broad range of revenue sources, from general revenues and debt, to fuel taxes, fees, and tolls.
July 6, 2018 - Last Friday (after ETW went to press), the Federal Transit Administration sent out a "Dear Colleague"...
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This is a "Dear Colleague" letter from Acting Federal Transit Administrator Jane Williams to transit agencies dated June 29, 2018...
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This is an unofficial estimate of Senate support for Senator Harrison Williams' (D-NJ) mass transit bill, dated March 6, 1963,...
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This is a memo from White House staffer Mike Manatos (their legislative affairs contact for Senate offices) to his boss...
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These are the minutes of a strategy meeting held December 13, 1962 among a variety of mass transit interest groups...
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March 15, 1961 memo from Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation C.D. Martin, Jr. on the Commerce Department's views on...
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Text of the bill S. 3278 of the 86th Congress, introduced on March 24, 1960 by Sen. Harrison Williams (D-NJ)...
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This is the bill H.R. 10808 of the 86th Congress, one of a series of identical bills introduced in March...
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This is the text of the bill H.R. 11816 of the 85th Congress, introduced in the House of Representatives on...
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Refreshing the Status Quo: Federal Highway Programs and Funding Distribution
This year, the federal government gave $45.6 billion in highway “formula” funding to the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The state-by-state distribution of this money was based almost entirely on how the states fared on a variety of real-world metrics back in calendar year 2007,...