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Eno Transportation Weekly

Week of March 11, 2019
Amtrak, Appropriations, Aviation, FASTLANE, Federal budget, Federal funding, Federal governance, Governance, Highway Trust Fund, Highways, Maritime, Public transit, Rail, Traffic safety, TruckingMarch 11, 2019 - President Trump has released a fiscal year 2020 budget request today that calls for $84.1 billion in gross budgetary resources for the U.S. Department of Transportation today, a $3.5 billion decrease from 2019.
President’s FY20 Budget Cuts DOT Appropriations $4.8 Billion, Meets FAST Act HTF Spending Targets, Keeps $200B Infrastructure Placeholder
March 11, 2019 - President Trump has released a fiscal year 2020 budget request today that calls for $84.1 billion in gross budgetary resources for the U.S. Department of Transportation today, a $3.5 billion decrease from 2019.
Buses, Federal funding, Federal governance, Governance, Public transit, RailMarch 14, 2019 - Today, a bipartisan group of Senators, including the chairman and ranking minority member of the committee with jurisdiction over mass transit issues, introduced a bill that would ban U.S. transit agencies from buying rail cars or buses made by any company that is
Key Senators Introduce Bill Banning Transit Agencies From Procuring Rolling Stock from China-Based Manufacturers
March 14, 2019 - Today, a bipartisan group of Senators, including the chairman and ranking minority member of the committee with jurisdiction over mass transit issues, introduced a bill that would ban U.S. transit agencies from buying rail cars or buses made by any company that is "owned or controlled by, is a subsidiary of, or is otherwise related legally or financially to a corporation" located in the People's Republic of China.

News & Analysis

Bridges, Commuter Rail, Federal funding, Federal governance, Governance, Public transit, Rail, Railroads
FY20 New Starts Report Still Rates Gateway Projects Medium-Low, Making Them Ineligible for Federal Funding
March 15, 2019 As part of the Trump Administration's fiscal 2020 budget (slow your) rollout, the Federal Transit Administration this afternoon released its detailed annual report on its Capital Investment Grant program, including updates on the pr... Sorry - you don't have access to this item. Please log in below, or check out our membership [...]
By Jeff Davis
Appropriations, Federal budget, Federal funding, Federal governance, Governance
Trump FY20 Budget Calls for Trillion-Dollar Deficits Through FY24
March 13, 2019 The outline of President Trump's fiscal year 2020 budget request, released this week, calls for unified federal deficits exceeding $1 trillion in each of fiscal years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 before finally dipping below ten figure... Sorry - you don't have access to this item. Please log in below, or check [...]
By Jeff Davis
Appropriations, Environment, Federal budget, Federal governance, Governance, Maritime, ports
FY20 Budget Again Calls to Cut Water Infrastructure Funding by One-Third
March 14, 2019 The few documents made available this week describing President Trump's budget request for fiscal year 2020 (tens of thousands of additional pages will be released next week) show that the President is proposing to cut Corps of Engi... Sorry - you don't have access to this item. Please log in below, or [...]
By Jeff Davis
Federal funding, Federal governance, Governance, Highways
FHWA Gives States $36.6 Billion in Full-Year FY19 Highway Funding
March 15, 2019 The Federal Highway Administration on March 11 finally gave state DOTs their full-year distribution of highway funding permission under the year-long Department of Transportation Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2019. On that d... Sorry - you don't have access to this item. Please log in below, or check out our membership options. [...]
By Jeff Davis
Federal governance, Governance, Public transit
Senate Panel OK’s Drake FTA Nomination (Again)
March 15, 2019 – On March 12, the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee quietly approved the re-nomination of Thelma Drake to be Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration.
By Jeff Davis

Editors

Jeff Davis
Jeff Davis
Senior Fellow and Editor, Eno Transportation Weekly

Featured Contributors

Tina Quigley
Tina Quigley
General Manager, Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
Andrew Glass Hastings
Andrew Glass Hastings
Senior Mobility Strategist, Remix and Former Director of Transit & Mobility, City of Seattle
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