By Jeff Davis
Close attention is being paid to the team that will surround Buttigieg at DOT. Jeff Davis, senior fellow at the Eno Center for Transportation, suggested to TT the deputy secretary role could go to a…
Still, said Davis, that bill reflects a truth about the Senate: It rarely embraces the sort of transformational change Biden seeks.
“Transit tends to have more support generally abroad, that can definitely make expensive things like environmental review processes easier and cheaper,” Lewis added.
This article is on Eno’s Transit Reform for Maryland report and its recommendations from Paul Lewis and Brianne Eby on improving Baltimore’s transit system.
“Between the pay-for problems and general Republican reluctance to get on board with some of the major climate provisions, those are impediments to bipartisan support,” said Jeff Davis.
“The money in this bill should still be enough to get everyone through March 31, which is the stated goal of the bill,” said Jeff Davis.
Jeff Davis compared the president-elect’s pick of a former mayor to those by past presidents, such as Bill Clinton, who had entrusted former mayors to run transportation affairs.
“Transit is going through a catastrophic moment, and it’s hard to overstate how challenging the threats are,” said Robert Puentes.
Paul Lewis, vice president of policy and finance at the Eno Center for Transportation, said his concern is related not as much to transportation as it is to logistics.
Roughly half of the operating budget for New York’s buses and subways comes from fares, according to Jeff Davis.
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