Eno in the News
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Rural America Cashes In Under Trump
Jeff Davis shares his perspective on how the Trump administration has favored rural area transit funding, rather than urban. ShareMSNBC |
What has President Trump’s Department of Transportation done?
Jeff Davis speaks with Stephanie Ruhl on MSNBC about the USDOT and urban vs. rural funding. ShareValliant News |
Critics fear Trump will tap auto exec for NHTSA
Jeff Davis offers historical perspective on the timeline of President Trump’s NHTSA choice. ShareCity Lab |
In the Trump Era, Transportation Funding Is Simple: Build Roads
Eno Center’s Jeff Davis weighs in on how the modal section of Build grants favor roads. The past three years of discretionary grants have funded the construction of more roads and bridges while reducing commitments to mass transit, rail, and bike/pedestrian infrastructure. ShareU.S. News & World Report |
States Face Potential Loss of Transportation Funding
U.S. News & World Report cites Jeff Davis on why the fundamental structure of transportation contract authority programs needs to be reconsidered. ShareFrederick News Post |
The Break Down: The Cost Of Fixing America’s Roads And Who Will Pay For It
“The states, cities, metropolitan areas are not waiting for Washington to come to the rescue. They’re out doing their own things,” said Robert Puentes, the Executive Director at the Eno Center for Transportation, a D.C.-based think tank. “They’re passing their own gasoline taxes. blue states, red states, everything in between have raised their own gas […]Frederick News Post |
Project to cut congestion on I-270 moves along
Vice President of Policy, Paul Lewis, discusses how to make traffic flow better on the highway through ramp metering. ShareStreetsblog |
It’s Progressives vs. Labor over Transportation Money
“Highways aren’t entitled to 80 percent of general fund spending on surface transportation any more than NASA or HUD or health care or anything else, and there is no reason whatsoever why transit should be limited to 20 percent of any new budgetary construct to provide multi-year surface transportation funding from general revenues,” Eno Center […]Streetsblog |
Europe’s Congestion Pricing Lessons For America
Robert Puentes shares the lessons learned from Eno’s Congestion Pricing Study Tour, where members of the Eno team went to Europe to find out how exactly cities embraced congestion pricing. “Any strategy that boosts transit by providing more service and allowing it to run more freely helps low-income travelers, but in the U.S., low-income households […]Reuters |