Davis noted that while the federal side of spending for projects hasn’t been affected just yet, “there is also uncertainty in the ability of many state and local governments’ to produce matching funds.”
Jeff Davis told FreightWaves that he does not see the Democrats’ version of the bill making it through without major revisions, particularly regarding sections that attempt to address climate change.
“It’s far too early to tell if the commuting transformation wrought by the pandemic will stick” said Jeff Davis.
“We’re going back to the mindset of a program for every problem, which in the last decade we tried to move on from,” Jeff Davis said.
“All our models are broken,” said Jeff Davis, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Eno Center for Transportation.
“High-speed rail would be a terrible short-term stimulus,” said Jeff Davis.
Jeff Davis discusses how government subsidies have kept short-hop flights in the air during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Some details in the $2 trillion legislation were still being finalized but in a presentation Wednesday afternoon, Jeff Davis, a senior fellow at the Eno Center for Transportation, said he did not expect any changes…
Eno’s Jeff Davis breaks down the funding for airlines in the coronavirus relief package.
Jeff Davis contends that a long-term infrastructure bill is the wrong solution to a recession in which there is a short-term collapse of retail demand.
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