Issues & Modes / Funding & Finance
White House Transmits New GROW AMERICA Bill to Congress
Mar 30, 2015 | Jeff DavisMarch 30, 2015 Today, the Obama Administration transmitted the 2015 version of its GROW AMERICA surface transportation reauthorization...
The Politics of Infrastructure: Balancing User Fees and Value Capture
Mar 19, 2015 | Carter TempletonBY RICK RYBECK* Just Economics, LLC On November 23rd, “60 Minutes” broadcast an episode about crumbling infrastructure in the...
Where are the “Bad” Transportation Projects
Mar 19, 2015 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONTransportation projects can develop a bad reputation. When people hear “Bridge to Nowhere” or “Big Dig” for most people their...
1962 Sorensen Memo to JFK on Draft Transportation Message to Congress
Mar 16, 2015 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONMarch 16, 2016 Today’s ETW Document of the week is a memo to President Kennedy from his senior advisor Ted Sorensen written 53 years...
1972 Highway Bill “No Bill” Strategy Memo
Mar 12, 2015 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONMarch 12, 2015 This week’s ETW Document of the Week again revisits the Nixon Administration. In October 1972, House and Senate...
Congressional Estimators Say Repatriation Won’t Pay for GROW AMERICA
Mar 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisMarch 9, 2015 The tax estimating body used by Congress has determined that the President’s proposed funding offset for the GROW...
Choose Your Own Transportation Future: Thoughts on USDOT’s Beyond Traffic
Feb 19, 2015 | Carter TempletonBY MARLA WESTERVELT Policy Analyst In recent years the American public has been inundated with crumbling infrastructure headlines...
The Highway Trust Fund: What is it Good For? A response to surface transportation devolutionists
Feb 19, 2015 | Carter TempletonBY MARLA WESTERVELT Policy Analyst Falling gasoline prices have Americans talking - prices that were hovering around $3.50 per...
Funding for freight can be a critical element for the next transportation bill
Feb 19, 2015 | Paul LewisThe United States currently lacks a comprehensive national freight policy. Over the past several years, there has been extensive...
FY 1982 Reagan Transportation Budget Details
Feb 03, 2015 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONFebruary 3, 2015 The ETW staff is hard at work putting together a mammoth summary of the President's new transportation budget...
President Releases FY 2016 Budget Request
Feb 02, 2015 | Jeff DavisFebruary 2, 2015 This is a preliminary Eno Transportation Weekly Express update on the President’s budget request for fiscal year...
CBO Releases Initial FY 2016 Budget Outlook
Jan 26, 2015 | Jeff DavisJanuary 26, 2015 The Congressional Budget Office has released its annual Budget and Economic Outlook. The main narrative document...