ISSUE / Week of October 22, 2018
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Appropriations,Federal BudgetOctober 26,2018 |New Report Examines True Federal Cost of State/Local Infrastructure Financing
October 26, 2018 When most people think of federal financial support for state and local infrastructure spending, they think of the billions of dollars per year that the federal government spends... -
Accessibility,BusesOctober 26,2018 |
Op-Ed: Addressing the Current and Future Challenges of Public Transit
October 25, 2018 Last week I was invited to speak at and participate in the Minnesota-Wisconsin Public Transportation Conference and Expo in La Crosse, WI. Transit agencies in attendance ranged...
Chinese State-Owned Enterprises are Eyeing U.S. Freight Rail Manufacturing: Report
October 26, 2018 | Alexander LaskaOctober 22, 2018 Chinese-backed companies are targeting U.S. freight rail car manufacturing, and their market dominance would threaten America’s economic and national security, according to a...
Not Your Run of the Millage: How Washington State’s Carbon Fee Ballot Proposal Addresses Transportation
October 26, 2018 | So Jung KimOctober 23, 2018 Funding better transportation tends to be a winning proposition at the ballot box—with a success rate around 70 percent (See Eno’s 2016 Transportation Ballot Measures Recap,...
Op-Ed: Cities are Looking to Change the “Rules of the Road”
October 26, 2018 | Brianne EbyOctober 25, 2018 This week, Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration announced a number of plans to rethink the flow of traffic on the city’s streets. These plans followed an...
Can Common Carrier Locker Systems Solve Urban Freight Challenges?
October 26, 2018 | Alexander LaskaOctober 25, 2018 With the growth of e-commerce, U.S. cities are seeing more truck traffic than ever. As more of these trucks crowd city streets and compete with one another and with on-demand...
FY18 Final Numbers Slightly Extend Highway Trust Fund Default Date
October 26, 2018 | Jeff DavisOctober 26, 2018 Last week, we wrote about how a surge in truck sales had boosted fiscal year 2018 Highway Trust Fund tax receipts resulted in Trust Fund balances at the end of the year being $3...
President Signs Water Resources Bill
October 26, 2018 | Jeff DavisOctober 26, 2018 President Trump signed the biennial water resources development bill (the America's Water Infrastructure Act) into law on October 23 at a ceremony in the Oval Office – S. 3021...