Issues & Modes / Highways and Streets
CBO Issues Analysis of Nationwide Truck VMT Tax
Oct 17, 2019 | Jeff DavisThe Congressional Budget Office today released a new report entitled Issues and Options for a Tax on Vehicle Miles Traveled by...
Performance Goals Force Some States to Prioritize NHS Bridges, Interstate Maintenance
Oct 16, 2019 | Jeff DavisAs 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
Oct 15, 2019 | Jeff DavisAs 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
Oct 04, 2019 | Paul LewisAs 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
Oct 03, 2019 | Jeff DavisFiscal 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
Oct 03, 2019 | Jeff DavisAs 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
Oct 02, 2019 | Jeff DavisAs 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
Sep 27, 2019 | Jeff DavisThis 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
Sep 27, 2019 | Jeff DavisThe 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
Sep 13, 2019 | Robert PuentesCongress 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
Sep 12, 2019 | Jeff DavisA 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
Sep 09, 2019 | Jeff DavisOn this day 60 years ago – September 9, 1959 – the White House announced that President Eisenhower was requesting a bailout of the...
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,...