MARTA Expansion Dies at the State without a Vote
A bill to put MARTA expansion on an upcoming ballot and let voters decide the issue won’t receive a vote in the Georgia State Senate.
View ArticleMaryland Bill Would Create System for Project Funding
Maryland is attempting to join the growing movement of states trying to ensure that transportation projects are selected and built on their merits in a more transparent process.
View ArticleCBO Report says Price of Roads is Wrong
A new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report confirms what we’ve known for a long time: our nation’s system of assessing the costs of roads—and paying for their construction and maintenance—is badly...
View ArticleCuomo Wants to be Next Master Builder, Questions Arise
A year into his second term, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is a man with a limited legacy. Well before fiascoes like the Moreland Commission, there were triumphs: He signed same-sex marriage into law just months...
View ArticleFinalists for Smart Cities Challenge Announced
The US government is offering seven cities a remarkable challenge: reinvent urban transportation for the 21st century, with a particular focus on autonomous vehicles. To pull it off, those cities will...
View ArticleSeattle Saves Struggling Bike Share System
Seattle’s city council has voted to spend about $1.5 million bailing out the city’s insolvent bike-share program, reports KPLU. The money will be used to pay off the Pronto system’s capital debt, and...
View ArticleNetwork Rail Privatization Expected to be Ruled Out
Treasury-commissioned review likely to call for devolution of regional routes and some private investment, but not sell-off of network, after fares warning
View ArticleState Bill to Allow Private Financing Drops Highways, Transit Only
The focus of a bill proposing private sector investments for transportation projects statewide has been narrowed to only include transit projects such as light rail.
View ArticleToronto Exploring Road Pricing on Downtown Highways
Road pricing is on the table in Toronto. (Somebody has to fund the expensive Gardiner Expressway East rebuild.) On March 11, 2016, the City issued a Request for Proposal for: “Options for Establishment...
View ArticleDivorce Over MARTA Expansion Means Separate Votes
The city of Atlanta and north Fulton County are headed for a divorce. Those close to the negotiations describe the separation as “amicable.”
View ArticleOrlando Suburb Would Subsidize Uber Trips
In a January 2015 paper, the Yale Law professor David Schleicher and Yale Law student Daniel Rauch published a paper on how local governments might regulate “sharing economy” companies, such as Uber,...
View ArticleCanadian Pension Funds Urge Big Thinking on Infrastructure
Canada’s largest pension funds have advice for Justin Trudeau’s government as it prepares to double its infrastructure investments over the next decade: follow the Australian model and think big.
View ArticleThe Suburbs are Fighting LA Metro’s Transit Plans
It was inevitable that not everybody was going to be satisfied with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s new sales tax plan. But as they dig into the details of the proposal, which was released...
View ArticleBike Share Programs Need Subsidies to Keep Rolling
The first modern U.S. bike share programs rolled out in Denver, Washington, D.C., and the Twin Cities about five years ago as a way to ease congestion, cut pollution and give residents and tourists a...
View ArticleHow Does WMATA Funding Stack Up?
Most transit systems have two budgets: capital, to pay for things like trains and rails, and operating, for running the equipment they already have. And most rely on a few different sources for the...
View ArticleMARTA Bill Could Generate Billions for Atlanta
MARTA rail expansion and transit along the Atlanta Beltline, a possibility that has seemed so far off for oh so long, could be closer to becoming a reality under a bill passed by the General Assembly...
View ArticleHow Gov Hogan Slimmed Purple Line Budget
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has touted his Purple Line cost-cutting as a victory for taxpayers. On March 2 the state hired a private-sector team, Purple Line Transit Partners, led by the firm Fluor...
View ArticleA Tool for Funding Infrastructure Gets More Popular
After years of the vacuum left by the end of California’s redevelopment agencies, the California Economic Summit two years ago helped craft a robust new financing tool for local governments looking to...
View ArticleProtected Bike Lane Shot Down By the Finance Department
Residents of Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood want a two-way, parking-protected bike lane on 26th Avenue, a street that straddles Aurora and Denver.
View ArticleDOT Grants TIFIA Grant for Chicago Railcars
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has provided a $255m loan to the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) to buy new railcars in order to improve transit service in Chicago.
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