DOT Announces $272M in Rail State of Good Repair Grants
September 6, 2019 –
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By Jeff Davis
September 6, 2019 –
By Jeff Davis
September 6, 2019 – The sponsors of the proposed Hudson River Tunnel replacement project on August 23 announced that they have submitted a revised financial plan to the Federal Transit Administration that lowers the cost of the project by $1.4 billion.
By Ike Obi
The Eno Center for Transportation would like to congratulate our board member, Diane Woodend Jones, Chair of Lea + Elliott Inc. and the Immediate Past Chair of the Women’s Transportation Seminar’s International (WTS International), on her receipt of the 2019 Dallas Business Journal’s Women in Business Award.
The August 2019 Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP) conference addressed issues of sociodemographic equity, a theme that was integrated in many sessions throughout the conference.
By Jeff Davis
September 6, 2019 – The U.S. Department of Transportation on August 29 announced that 20 highway bridge replacement projects would split $225 million in grant money provided by the 2018 omnibus appropriations act as part of a one-time-only competitive bridge grant program for rural states.
By Jeff Davis
September 5, 2019 – Yesterday, the White House issued an official endorsement of a version of language banning mass transit rolling stock procurements from Chinese manufacturers that includes buses as well as railcars, in a blow to electric bus manufacturer BYD.
By Jeff Davis
September 5, 2019 – The White House Office of Management and Budget sent its list of requests for special treatment in the forthcoming stopgap continuing appropriations measure that Congress must enact by September 30 – and that list does not include fixes for pending highway and mass transit funding problems, as advocates had hoped.
Wednesday, September 11 – House Transportation and Infrastructure – Subcommittee on Highways and Transit – subcommittee hearing on congestion pricing for roadways (witness list here) – 10:00 a.m., 2167 Rayburn. Wednesday, September 11 – Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation – full committee oversight hearing on the Transportation Security Administration –…
By Jeff Davis
September 5, 2019 – The Federal Highway Administration has given an additional $4.0 billion in use-it-or-lose-it highway funding authority to state DOTs for fiscal year 2019, which they must obligate by September 30.
By Jeff Davis
September 2, 2019 – In January 1959, President Eisenhower asked Congress to increase the federal gasoline tax by 50 percent in order to prevent the Highway Trust Fund from running out of money later that year. Congress and the states did not receive the request well.
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