Philadelphia Highway Collapse Will Cost Time and Money
Unpredictable, but not unprecedented. In 2017, a fire caused a critical portion of I-85 in Atlanta to collapse. But workers rebuilt that elevated roadway in just six weeks.
Debt Ceiling Deal Leaves DOT Mostly Unscathed, but Transportation, Housing Funds May Still Be at Risk
/Budget, Federal Funding, Public transit
/By Gabrielle Gurley
Jeff Davis, senior fellow and editor at the Eno Center for Transportation, said in an email that “the Transportation-HUD bill is uniquely disadvantaged in 2024 for reasons having nothing to do with the debt ceiling or spending caps.”
Service Advisory: Amtrak is the climate-friendly option — if extreme weather doesn’t disrupt your trip.
/Amtrak, Railroads
/By Michael Gerstein
The “sweet spot,” said Robert Puentes, the president and CEO of Eno Center for Transportation, a nonprofit think tank in Washington, D.C., is “about 400 to 500 miles, where it’s too short to fly, too long to drive.”
CTA riders ask: Why is Chicago’s transit tracker unreliable?
/Local governance, Regional governance
/By Michael Gerstein
The passenger rail company is feeling bullish this year, said Robert Puentes, head of the Eno Center for Transportation, an advocacy group. “What they have requested here is more money than Amtrak has ever received,” he said. That’s on top of billions from the infrastructure law that passed two years ago.
Transit Agencies Turn to States to Avert Fiscal Cliff
/Local governance, Regional governance
/By Daniel C. Lock
The passenger rail company is feeling bullish this year, said Robert Puentes, head of the Eno Center for Transportation, an advocacy group. “What they have requested here is more money than Amtrak has ever received,” he said. That’s on top of billions from the infrastructure law that passed two years ago.
Amtrak Wants $3.6 billion in Subsidies. It Probably Won’t Get All of That
/Local governance, Regional governance
/The passenger rail company is feeling bullish this year, said Robert Puentes, head of the Eno Center for Transportation, an advocacy group. “What they have requested here is more money than Amtrak has ever received,” he said. That’s on top of billions from the infrastructure law that passed two years ago.
Mass Transit Hangs Off Eroding Fiscal Cliffs
/Local governance, Regional governance
/By Gabrielle Gurley
“The beauty and tragedy of heavy rail is that once you’ve dug the hole in the ground and put a subway line in it, it’s there for 100 years whether people are still choosing to embark and disembark in that spot, or not,” says Jeff Davis, a senior fellow at the Eno Center for Transportation in Washington who has studied the administration’s budget proposal. “So, you could see significant redesign of bus routes and patterns in a lot of these major cities.”
Illinois Lawmakers Seek ‘Bold’ Plan for Chicago Area Transit
/Local governance, Public transit, Regional governance, Transit
/“Transit works best when it’s on a regional scale. People cross borders all the time,” says Robert Puentes, president and CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation, a nonprofit group that is helping CMAP research potential recommendations to the Legislature. “Coordinating all of that is a challenge for any transit agency, especially in a place with a legacy system like Chicago.”
Cities See Hyperlocal ‘Activity Centers’ Key to Sustainable Growth, Less Car Dependency
/Local governance, Regional governance
/“This is a model for concentrated future growth,” said Robert Puentes, president and CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation. “It’s less about just concentrating [homes and jobs] so that people can use transit to get to those parts of the region, [and more about] trying to concentrate more of the work and play around these activity centers.”
Could the Bay Area Lose BART?
/Budget, Buses, Local governance, Public transit
/By Jeff Davis
“Politicians pass around the phrase all the time, ‘it’s too big to fail’ because money has to come from somewhere,” Shrode said. “But no one wants to fork over the money to plug these holes in order to prevent cutting service.”
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