ISSUE / Week of March 7, 2016
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March 11, 2016 As first reported in last Wednesday’s ETW Express, the bipartisan leaders of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee have introduced legislation (S. 2658)...
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Federal Funding,Federal GovernanceMarch 11,2016 |DOT Announces Procedures for Repurposing $2.0 Billion in Highway Money From “Dead Earmarks”
March 10, 2016 The U.S. Department of Transportation this week announced the procedures for allowing states to redistribute almost $2 billion in highway funding from "dead earmarks" made by...
Next FAA Extension is 3.5 Months for Spending but 1 Year for Taxes
March 11, 2016 | Jeff DavisMarch 11, 2016 Yesterday, the chairmen of the House Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure and on Ways and Means introduced legislation (H.R. 4721) to extend expiring aviation funding...
CBO Score of Shuster FAA Bill Is Negative, but Incomplete
March 11, 2016 | Jeff DavisMarch 11, 2016 This week, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released its cost estimate for H.R. 4441, the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill ordered reported last month...
New WMATA Chief Outlines Plans for DC Metro’s Future
March 11, 2016 | Emily HanMarch 10, 2016 The National Press Club held a luncheon on March 7 featuring Paul Wiedefeld, the general manager of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) since last November....
Airline Seat Size Issue Overblown
March 11, 2016 | Rob BrittonSenator Charles Schumer (D-New York) recently announced that he planned to introduce an amendment to the FAA Reauthorization Bill mandating minimum sizes for aircraft seat width and pitch (the...
Comings and Goings (Mostly to Los Angeles)
March 11, 2016 | Jeff DavisMany transportation insiders will have noticed that Acting Federal Transit Administrator Therese McMillan has decided to stop waiting around for Senate Banking Committee chairman Richard Shelby...
Eno Launches New FAST Act Reference Pages
March 11, 2016 | Jeff DavisNow that the five-year surface transportation reauthorization (the FAST Act) has been signed into law, we have rearranged Eno's Highway Trust Fund Reference Page so that it is once again about the...
Eno Launches New PPP Reference Page
March 11, 2016 | Emily HanMarch 9, 2016 Eno has created a new reference page about public-private partnerships (P3s), including Eno’s past work as the P3 Working Group (now the Transportation Finance Working Group). The...