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. Share

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. Share

Critics fear Trump will tap auto exec for NHTSA

Jeff Davis offers historical perspective on the timeline of President Trump’s NHTSA choice. Share

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. Share

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. Share

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 […]

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. Share

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 […]

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 […]

Uber takes aim at ‘patchwork’ of ride share taxes in Illinois

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