ISSUE / Week of May 14, 2018
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May 18, 2018 On May 16, the House Transportation-Housing Appropriations Subcommittee swiftly approved a draft appropriations bill funding the Department of Transportation and the Department of...
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Air Traffic Control,AviationMay 18,2018 |Guest Op-Ed: A U.S. Air Traffic Control Corporation Is Inevitable
May 18, 2018 Earlier this year, the leading political champion of corporatizing the air traffic control (ATC) system, Chairman Bill Shuster (R, PA) of the House Transportation & Infrastructure...
Senate Subcommittee Questions Commuter Rail’s Lack of PTC Progress
May 18, 2018 | Alexander LaskaMay 17, 2018 The lack of progress in implementing Positive Train Control (PTC) on the part of some commuter rail lines fell under scrutiny at a hearing Wednesday of the Senate Appropriations...
Guest Op-Ed: Do We Need to Upgrade from “Informed Consent” to “Informed Risk” with Autonomous Vehicles?
May 18, 2018 | Greg RogersRecent events, including the testimony of Facebook’s CEO on Capitol Hill discussing how consumer provided data is used for profit, the significant disruption to City of Atlanta services from a...
FY19 Update: Do the House Appropriations Bills Keep the $10 Billion Infrastructure Promise?
May 17, 2018 | Jeff DavisMay 17, 2018 The February 2018 bipartisan budget deal increasing discretionary appropriations totals for fiscal years 2018 and 2019 was accompanied by a “deal memo” between Congressional...
CBO: White House $15.2 Billion Rescissions Bill Only Reduces Deficits by $1.3 Billion
May 17, 2018 | Jeff DavisMay 17, 2018 The White House's much-ballyhooed package of proposed spending cuts, submitted to Congress on May 8 and then introduced in the House as the bill H.R. 3 on the following day, proposes...
FTA Commits First FY18 Capital Investment Grant Funding
May 18, 2018 | Jeff DavisMay 18, 2018 This week, the Federal Transit Administration approved grant agreements for two more "small start" projects out of the Capital Investment Grants program - the Indianapolis "IndyGo"...
House Bill Trims State Water Infrastructure Grants but Expands WIFIA Loans
May 18, 2018 | Jeff DavisMay 18, 2018 This week, the House Appropriations Committee released the text of the draft fiscal year 2019 Interior and Environment appropriations bill. While most of the programs in the bill are...
Water Resources Bill Introduced in House
May 18, 2018 | Jeff DavisMay 18, 2018 Today, the bipartisan leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee introduced the House version of the biennial water resources development bill. The Speaker has...
Eno Releases New Recommendations for Improving the Nation’s Rail Transit Infrastructure
May 18, 2018 | Paul LewisMay 17, 2018 Infrastructure Week, which kicked off on Monday, was about rebuilding our transportation systems as much as finding ways to expand and improve them. The American Public Transportation...
Infrastructure Week: Four Themes from the East Coast Kickoff Event
May 18, 2018 | Brianne EbyMay 18, 2018 The sixth annual Infrastructure Week kicked off in cities across the U.S. on May 14. This year’s lineup featured 110 events representing 427 affiliate organizations. Eno was on site...
Infrastructure Week: Planning for a Resilient Future
May 18, 2018 | Alice GrossmanMay 18, 2018 The Oxford English Dictionary defines resiliency as, “1. The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. 2. The ability of a substance or object to spring back into...