ISSUE / Week of September 21, 2020
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The House of Representatives has passed a one-year extension of FAST Act funding and policy as Division B of a larger fiscal-year-end package (H.R 8337) by the wide majority of 359 to 57, with one...
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This week, the House of Representatives passed a stopgap continuing resolution (CR), H.R. 8337, extending all non-emergency fiscal 2020 appropriations from October 1 through December 11, 2020, at...
Guest Op-Ed: Transit Agencies Continue to Renew Their Missions and Reinvent Service
September 25,2020 | Art GuzzettiIn 2020, all at once, public transportation providers were forced to confront multiple and varied challenges. Transit rose to the occasion to help communities, local economies, and health networks...
House May Vote On Another Pre-Election COVID Bill
September 25,2020 | Jeff DavisThe House of Representatives could vote as soon as next week on an additional package of COVID aid – a bill downsized from the $3.445 trillion Heroes Act (H.R. 6800) passed by the House on May...
House-Passed Extension Gives Highway Funding Increase to Texas and Colorado – And No One Else
September 25,2020 | Jeff DavisAs predicted earlier this week by ETW with 99.999 percent accuracy, the Federal Highway Administration has confirmed to Congress that the one-year extension of the FAST Act passed by the House of...
Eno Releases New Report on MOD Fare Integration with Transit
September 25,2020 | Romic AevazOver the past several years, some transit agencies have adopted more sophisticated electronic fare payment methods and achieved greater integration with other regional transportation providers and...
Webinar Recap: Transportation Spending and Planning in the Time of COVID
September 25,2020 | Madeline GormanThe coronavirus pandemic has hammered state and municipal budgets across the United States. A recent analysis from the National League of Cities found that nearly two thirds of localities have...
House Committee Asked to Propose New Improvements to USDOT Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program
September 25,2020 | Christian PiñeiroOn Wednesday, September 23, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure held a hearing to discuss the impacts of – and potential improvements to – the U.S. Department of...
DOT Announces $321 Million in CRISI Rail Grants
September 25,2020 | Jeff DavisOn September 23, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced the selectees for grants from the fiscal 2020 appropriation for the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI)...
VMT Stabilized in July; Gas Production Indicates This May Be “New Normal” Level
September 25,2020 | Jeff DavisThe July issue of Traffic Volume Trends from the Federal Highway Administration says that total vehicle miles-traveled (VMT) on U.S. roadways in July 2020 was down 11.2 percent from the July 2019...
Capitol Hill Events – Week of September 28, 2020
September 25,2020 | Jeff DavisWednesday, September 30 – House Homeland Security – Subcommittee on Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations – subcommittee hearing on DHS management of trusted traveler programs (witness...