“The Implications of the Federal Ban on Chinese Railcars” concludes that until the federal government better understands the potential national security risks of using Chinese railcars in American transit systems, a one-year appropriations ban is…
This is the original lawsuit by the Association of American Railroads, filed in August 2011, against the joint Amtrak/FRA metrics for on-time performance that spawned at least seven years worth of court proceedings.
This is the March 23, 2017 opinion of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in the seemingly never-ending case of Association of American Railroads v. Department of Transportation. This decision, on remand…
This is the bill H.R. 10808 of the 86th Congress, one of a series of identical bills introduced in March 1960 based on draft legislation proposed by the American Municipal Association, which was in turn…
This is the text of the bill H.R. 11816 of the 85th Congress, introduced in the House of Representatives on April 1, 1958 by Rep. William Green, Jr. (D-PA). This may have been the first…
This is an internal memo from the White House Bureau of the Budget dated March 11, 1960 summarizing legislation introduced in the House of Representatives (as H.R. 10808, 10843, 10852, 10863, and 10885) at the…
This is a database of information related to maintenance of public transit systems. This database was created by the Eno Center for Transportation for our report, “Tools for a Smoother Ride: Managing Rail Assets and…
This study examines rail maintenance program needs and practices through dozens of interviews with public and private stakeholders and experts around the country. The consensus was that asset management practices in the United States are…
This is a letter dated December 29, 2017 from Acting Federal Transit Administrator Jane Williams to the head of the New York State budget office criticizing the revised financial plan for the proposed new Hudson…
This is the original presentation Amtrak used in February 2011 when announcing plans for the Gateway Program,
This is a PDF copy of the report that the Federal Railroad Administration was required to submit to Congress by section 11406 of the FAST Act. It evaluates every railroad’s compliance with FRA safety advisories…
Amtrak’s financial plan for FY 2017-2021 – original version with what appear to be massive spreadsheet errors in the per-route totals in the last 10 pages or so of the document.
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