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Administration Proposes Temporary Transit Operating Subsidies, Other Policy Changes in FY24 Budget

The fiscal 2024 transportation budget request was mostly devoid of new policy proposals, but mass transit is the exception. The budget...

DOT Proposes Signing $19 Billion in FFGAs in FY24

Under the Biden Administration's proposed budget for fiscal 2024, this will be the year when all of the pre-Biden mass transit Capital...

City Transit Systems Begin to Peer Over the Fiscal Cliff

“Cutting service is a feedback loop that makes everyone worse off,” Shrode says. “Even when you cut a significant amount of...

DOT Spreads $800M in FY22 SS4A Grants Widely

On February 1, the Biden Administration announced the distribution of $800 million in road safety grant funding amongst 510 different...

Ballot’s Up: A 2022 Retrospective

With the dust finally settled from the 2022 midterm elections and new (as well as incumbent) elected officials sworn in over the...

Biden Promises Future Tunnel Funding Without Actually Making Grants

Politicians holding big public events in association with funding grant announcements for high-profile projects are as old as funding...

Moving MaaS: The Situation in Singapore

Today, city inhabitants have access to almost a dozen different modes of transportation. However, almost a dozen different modes of...

1971 UMTA Feasibility Study for Federal Mass Transit Operating Subsidies

This 139-page PDF file is the study commissioned by section 9of the Urban Mass Transportation Assistance Act of 1970. That law required...

From Washington: President Biden’s Pick For New Chief Of Staff

President and CEO of Eno Center for Transportation and Brookings Metro Non-Resident Senior Fellow Robert Puentes discusses the current...

Moving MaaS: Mobility as a Service in the United States and Abroad

Today, city inhabitants have access to almost a dozen different modes of transportation. However, almost a dozen different modes of...

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