Public transportation is a critical part of the economic and social fabric of metropolitan areas. While most of the nation’s 2,400 transit providers serve rural areas, almost all transit trips occur in the nation’s 100 largest metro areas, which account for over 95 percent of all transit passenger miles traveled. Transit is also changing as agencies are exploring ways to redesign their networks, integration new mobility services, and ask voters to approve new investments at the ballot box.
Nossaman transportation policy expert Edward Kussy and rail veteran Kevin Sheys assess the relative merits of the federal transportation funding...
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Virginia has a long history of commitment to mass transit. The Washington, D.C. region's Metro system, the result of a...
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Internal White House summary of a proposed "New Federalism" initiative for President Reagan, dated January 1982, which would have turned...
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April 2, 2015 - The failure of the oil windfall profits tax of 1980 shows how dangerous it can be...
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March 30, 2015 - Today, the Obama Administration transmitted the 2015 version of its GROW AMERICA surface transportation reauthorization act...
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President Carter's March 1977 handwritten note to new Transportation Secretary Brock Adams explaining why the President thought most new subway...
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BY RICK RYBECK* Just Economics, LLC On November 23rd, “60 Minutes” broadcast an episode about crumbling infrastructure in the United...
https://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.png00Carter Templetonhttps://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.pngCarter Templeton2015-03-19 17:59:482023-04-17 07:12:39The Politics of Infrastructure: Balancing User Fees and Value Capture
A memo to President Kennedy from his senior advisor Ted Sorensen written on March 16, 1962, as the Administration was...
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In October 1972, House and Senate negotiations over the biannual highway bill were breaking down over the issue of whether...
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Over the past decade, Houston has invested a significant amount of resources in public transit. Most notably a new 12.8-mile...
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BY MARLA WESTERVELT Policy Analyst In recent years the American public has been inundated with crumbling infrastructure headlines and predictions...
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Eno’s Transit Cost & Project Delivery Research
Eno is undertaking a research, policy, and communications project to analyze current and historical trends in transit project delivery