Issue / FY20
End-of-FY20 Report on Aviation, Water Trust Funds
Oct 23, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe Airport and Airway Trust Fund had a predictably bad year in fiscal 2020 (since Congress shut off tax collections halfway through...
Final Highway Trust Fund Tax Receipts Were Robust in FY 2020 – Suspiciously So
Oct 23, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe books have closed on federal fiscal year 2020, which ended on September 30, and despite coronavirus and its effects on travel and...
Transit Agencies, Airports Spent Another $2.6 Billion of CARES Act Funding in August
Oct 09, 2020 | Jeff DavisU.S. mass transit providers and airport sponsors collectively spent another $2.6 billion of their $35 billion in special COVID-19 aid...
DOT Announces $321 Million in CRISI Rail Grants
Sep 25, 2020 | Jeff DavisOn September 23, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced the selectees for grants from the fiscal 2020 appropriation for the...
$1 Billion in BUILD Grants Announced by USDOT
Sep 18, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe U.S. Department of Transportation on September 16 announced the selectees for $1 billion in surface transportation grants from the...
Some Transit Agencies, Airports Still Slow to Spend Emergency COVID Money
Sep 11, 2020 | Jeff DavisMass transit agencies across the country spent $2.3 billion of their CARES Act coronavirus funding in July, while airports spent $652...
FHWA Gives States $4.8 Billion in Extra FY20 Highway Funding
Aug 28, 2020 | Jeff DavisToday, the Federal Highway Administration distributed an additional $4.8 billion in fiscal 2020 federal-aid highway funding to states...
FY 2020 State-by-State Federal-Aid Highway Funding Totals – Final
Aug 28, 2020 | Jeff DavisThis one-page table shows each state's dollar amounts (to the hundred thousand) of formula highway obligation limitation (initial and...
How Should Future COVID Mass Transit Aid Be Distributed?
Aug 14, 2020 | Jeff DavisIf you follow transportation Twitter, you may have noticed the hashtag #SaveTransit making the rounds this week, as advocacy groups...
Airports, Some Transit Agencies Slow to Spend COVID Relief Money
Aug 06, 2020 | Jeff DavisNew data from the federal government shows that not all airports and transit agencies needed the federal coronavirus aid provided by...
Coronavirus Aid Talks Drag On
Jul 31, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe extra $600 per week federal unemployment insurance benefit for the coronavirus crisis will expire today, and the eviction...
New Senate COVID Bill Gives Another $10B for Airports but Nothing for State DOTs, Transit Agencies
Jul 27, 2020 | Jeff DavisSenate Republicans have released the bill text of their latest coronavirus response legislation this evening, in piecemeal fashion. The...