Issues & Modes / Highways and Streets
Performance Goals Force Some States to Prioritize NHS Bridges, Interstate Maintenance
October 16,2019As the Eno Center's recent study, Refreshing the Status Quo: Federal Highway Programs and Funding Distribution pointed out, at present,...
FY20 Donor State Update: TX Adjustment Worsens CO, SC Rates of Return
October 15,2019As ETW noted on October 2, the annual distribution of formula highway funding under the FAST Act is still largely determined by how...
Eno’s Refreshing the Status Quo Investigates New Ways to Distribute Transportation Dollars
October 04,2019As the expiration of the federal surface transportation programs approaches, we at Eno decided to bust out the spreadsheets. Given that...
$43.4B in FY20 Highway Funding Apportioned to States
October 03,2019Fiscal year 2020 began on October 1, and the Federal Highway Administration was required to apportion $43.4 billion in highway contract...
Texas Once Again Triggers 95% Donor State Rule for FY 2020
October 03,2019As part of the FY 2020 highway funding apportionment process this week, it was revealed that, once again, Texas is the only state to...
How State Highway Funding Totals Are Calculated Under the FAST Act
October 02,2019As part of the Eno Center's release of its new paper, Refreshing the Status Quo: Federal Highway Programs and Funding Distribution,...
FHWA Repeals 103-Year-Old Regulation That Banned Patented Materials in Construction
September 27,2019This week, the Federal Highway Administration formally lifted a 103-year-old regulation that has banned the use of patented or...
EPA Threatens to Make California Transfer Highway Funding to Mass Transit Projects
September 27,2019The Environmental Protection Agency on September 23 threatened to start enforcing long-dormant Clean Air Act provisions that would...
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...
This year, the federal government gave $45.6 billion in highway “formula” funding to the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The state-by-state distribution of this money was based almost entirely on how the states fared on a variety of real-world metrics back in calendar year 2007,...