Transportation
USPS Delivering for America Plan Needs to Deliver More
The U.S. Postal Service will lose $8 billion in FY 2024 and the Delivering for American Plan is not working as intended.
Congress Should not Specify Advanced Technology for Aviation Safety and Efficiency
Congress should not pick winners and losers in FAA's bid to improve safety and efficiency.
Update on Texas High Speed Rail
The legislative session in Texas ends in less than two weeks, so the legislature has little time left to address the legal ambiguity surrounding the claim by the private company Texas Central Partners, LLC that it has the authority to use imminent...
The Safe Freight Act would slow innovation and put railroads at a competitive disadvantage
Are lawmakers in the 116th Congress again preparing to pick winners and losers in the commercial transportation industry?
De Blasio’s Trolley Goes Off The Rails
A trickle of negative stories about New York Mayor Bill De Blasio’s (D) proposed Brooklyn-Queens waterfront trolley, known as the BQX, has turned into a deluge.
Maryland’s Proposed Purple Line Update
On August 3, 2016, Judge Richard Leon of the U.S.
A Perfect Picture of Government Efficiency: The Washington D.C. Metro
On June 24, 2010, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) announced a $5 billion overhaul of the Metrorail and Metrobus system. However, the results of this retrofit have been underwhelming. The problems have persisted to such...
Purple Money
The largest public-private partnership (P3) in the U.S. is expected to start construction by the end of the year sits just outside the Capital Beltway in Maryland. What Maryland calls the Purple Line, we consider a colossal waste of taxpayer...
Senate Hearing on TSA Operations: Frustrated Travelers and Threats to Aviation
This morning, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs held a hearing entitled, “Frustrated Travelers: Rethinking TSA Operations to Improve Passenger Screening and Address Threats to Aviation.” The witnesses included:
In Jeopardy: Shuster’s Loftier Vision for Air Traffic Control Modernization
In today’s early edition of “Morning Consult,” an online digest of relevant public policy activities in the nation’s capital, the journal highlighted the disparities between the Senate and House versions of legislation to reauthorize the Federal...
Gas Guzzling Highway Bill Chugs to the White House
Late on December 3, 2015, the Senate passed the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act with a vote of 83-16. Needing only a signature from the President to become law, the FAST Act is a hasty solution to a long-term problem without...
The Ghoulish Amtrak Blame Game
Within hours of the deadly crash of an Amtrak train in Philadelphia, big spenders from Washington and New York pounced on the tragedy as a reason to throw more taxpayer money Amtrak’s way.
