Issues & Modes / Highways and Streets
Cold Water from Congress on Congestion Pricing
September 13,2019Congress was back in town this week and the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit jumped in with a timely hearing on congestion...
Draft FY20 CR Fixes Transit Problems but Does Not Repeal 2020 Highway Rescission
September 12,2019A draft of a stopgap continuing appropriations measure for the opening days of fiscal year 2020 was circulated to some lawmakers...
60 Years Ago Today – Eisenhower Requests First Highway Trust Fund Bailout
September 09,2019On this day 60 years ago – September 9, 1959 – the White House announced that President Eisenhower was requesting a bailout of the...
The First Time the Highway Trust Fund Went Broke – Part 3: Eisenhower Wears Down Resistance, Congress Fractures, and Compromise Is Reached
September 09,2019In last week’s part 2 of this series, the Highway Trust Fund was facing insolvency in fiscal 1960, President Eisenhower requested a...
DOT Gives $225M in Grants for One-Off Discretionary Bridge Program
September 06,2019The U.S. Department of Transportation on August 29 announced that 20 highway bridge replacement projects would split $225 million in...
FHWA Gives Final $4 Billion in FY19 Highway Obligation Authority to States
September 05,2019The Federal Highway Administration has given an additional $4.0 billion in use-it-or-lose-it highway funding authority to state DOTs...
The First Time the Highway Trust Fund Went Broke – Part 2: Ike Requests a 50% Gas Tax Increase, Which No One Likes
September 02,2019Part 1 of this look back at the September 1959 Highway Trust Fund bailout and contemporaneous motor fuels tax increase revealed how the...
The First Time the Highway Trust Fund Went Broke – Part 1: the 1958 Highway Act Makes Spending Unsustainable
August 21,2019August 21, 2019 Everyone who habitually reads ETW knows that the federal Highway Trust Fund went bankrupt in September 2008 and has...
Parking Reform Picks up Steam in 2019
August 16,2019The United States is estimated to have anywhere from 722 million to 2 billion parking spaces, and many U.S. cities are commonly...
DOT Issues Amendments to Truck/Bus Driver Hours of Service Rules
August 16,2019This week, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) issued a proposed rule that would implement some long-expected...
Fuel Efficiency Standards – California vs. the Feds (How We Got Here, and What Comes Next)
August 01,2019California and four major automakers (BMW, VW, Ford, and Honda) signed a voluntary agreement that appears to preempt the Trump...
All States Would Get Uniform Percentage Funding Increases Under Senate Bill, FHWA Says
August 01,2019The Federal Highway Administration has completed its initial funding analysis of S. 2302, the Senate highway reauthorization bill, as...
January 9, 2019 While no silver bullet will fix the woes of urban mobility and access, transportation economists believe that congestion pricing strategies come close. A number of U.S. cities and metropolitan areas are exploring the idea of charging a fee for driving on the parts of the roadway...