Three things the infrastructure plan missed
It does include reauthorization of the HTF and a $118 billion bailout from the Treasury’s general fund to meet the needs of the nation’s highways, bringing the grand total of transfers to the HTF to…
DeFazio looks to try again on his progressive transportation agenda
/Environment, Federal Funding, Infrastructure
/By Jeff Davis
But Jeff Davis of the Eno Center said the Byrd rule will also require that every dime of the committee’s $60 billion be spent by Sept. 30, 2031.
The perverse reason it’s easier to build new highways than new subways
/Environment, Infrastructure, Transit
/By Paul Lewis
“A transit agency is designed to operate transit, not build transit projects,” said Paul Lewis, the Eno Center’s director of policy. “And then once a decade we tell all the staff, ‘Go ahead and build…
Is the self-driving car doomed already?
/Transportation Technology
/By Jeff Davis
Jeff Davis, a senior fellow at the Eno Center for Transportation, said there’s both a technology problem and a problem of scale.
Federal program to cut bus emissions gets a Senate mandate: Some buses must pollute
/Buses, Emissions, Environment, Federal Funding
/By Jeff Davis
Still, the five-year total of nearly $107 billion for transit was about 65% above what was expected if spending remained flat in that period, according to Jeff Davis, a senior fellow at the Eno Center…
The infrastructure bill is more about maintaining train service than upgrading it
/Amtrak, Infrastructure
/“Amtrak was set up to fail,” Robert Puentes, CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation told CNN Business. “It wasn’t designed to last as long as it has.”
How pandemic relocations are snarling in-demand suburbs
/Public transit, Traffic
/By Paul Lewis
This shouldn’t come as a surprise, says Paul Lewis, vice president of policy and finance at the Eno Center for Transportation in Washington. “Working from home actually increases trips. People that work from home tend…
Fact check: Just how big is the infrastructure package?
/Federal Funding, Infrastructure
/By Jeff Davis
In a separate analysis, Jeff Davis, a senior fellow at the Eno Center for Transportation and the editor of Transportation Weekly, gauged the size of the infrastructure bill by using estimates from the Congressional Budget Office of…
The Senate infrastructure bill includes $1 billion to address devastation caused by freeways. Experts say it’s not enough
/Highways & Streets, Infrastructure
/“It represents a new kind of program and something that hasn’t been part of the federal infrastructure policy framework before,” says Robert Puentes, president and CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation, a Washington D.C. transportation…
Metro, U.S. 1 among Northern Virginia projects that could benefit from Senate infrastructure bill
/Federal Funding, Infrastructure
/By Jeff Davis
Jeff Davis of the Eno Center for Transportation said about $100 billion of the bill’s transportation money would pass through the U.S. Department of Transportation through competitive grants like RAISE, a program that both Prince…
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