ISSUE / Weeks of January 20 and 27, 2020
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Federal Funding,InfrastructureJanuary 29,2020 |House Democrats Unveil 5-Year, $760B Infrastructure Proposal
House Democratic leaders unveiled the outline of their long-awaited infrastructure proposal at a press conference this morning. The 18-page outline calls for $760 billion in spending over the... -
Funding & Finance,Highway Trust FundJanuary 31,2020 |
Ways and Means Looks at Difficult Issue of Paying for Infrastructure
Hours after House Democrats joyously announced the outline of their $760 billion infrastructure initiative, the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing to look at the hard part – paying for...
St. Louis Pulls Bid to Privatize its Airport
January 24, 2020 | Robert PuentesIn the late 1990s, the St. Louis Lambert International Airport was the nation's 15th-largest, with more traffic than Seattle-Tacoma, New York LaGuardia, or Charlotte Douglas. Lambert was once the...
Senate Panel Looks at Build America Bureau and USDOT Rural Initiative
January 31, 2020 | Alice GrossmanThe Senate Subcommittee on Transportation and Safety echoed the current administration’s concentration on rural America by holding a hearing on January 28 on Building Infrastructure in America:...
FHWA Gives $37.6B in FY20 Highway Funding to States
January 31, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe Federal Highway Administration on January 24 issued a formal funding notice that gave state DOTs $37.6 billion in unrestricted formula funding permission that they can use during fiscal year 2020...
USDOT Signs $790m Light Rail, Four Small Start Grant Agreements
January 31, 2020 | Jeff DavisIn the last two weeks, the U.S. Department of Transportation has signed five grant agreements totaling $974 million in federal appropriations for new mass transit projects and extensions under the...
New CBO Baseline Says 6-Year Surface Bill Needs At Least $94B in Additional Revenues
January 28, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is due to release its annual Budget and Economic Outlook this afternoon, and the rollout of that will include an updated ten-year baseline projection of...
New Trust Fund Forecast Shows Just How Broken the 80-20 Highway-Transit Revenue Split Has Become
January 30, 2020 | Jeff DavisAs Congress starts debating infrastructure bills, there is a lot of talk about getting the Highway Trust Fund back on a sound, user-pay basis and not repeating the $144 billion of bailouts from other...
Transportation Tax Receipt Forecast: Gasoline Still on the Decline, but Trucking and Airline Growth to Continue
January 31, 2020 | Jeff DavisAs part of the rollout of its annual budget outlook, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released its detailed forecast for federal excise tax receipts over the next decade, including a...
CBO Projects Surplus of Riches for Aviation Trust Fund
January 28, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office's new forecast for the finances of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund is out, and that forecast shows that the Trust Fund could support an average of $2.4...
Senators Propose Naming USDOT Headquarters Building for William Coleman
January 31, 2020 | Jeff DavisA bipartisan group of Senators this week introduced a bill to name the U.S. Department of Transportation headquarters building after former Secretary William Coleman, the first African-American...
Local Institutional Reform as Catalyst for the Mobility Future
January 24, 2020 | Jacob TzegaegbeIn February 2019, 24 transportation leaders, scholars, and executives convened for an Eno and Reason Foundation three-day workshop on Governance and Institutional Reform in Transportation....