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It was refreshing to hear the bipartisan remarks about the latest proposal to create a national infrastructure bank. This version--from Sens. Kerry, Hutchison, and Warner--called the American Infrastructure Financing Authority is not terribly dissimilar from the myriad other proposals that have kicking around for 20 years or so...
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In a letter Senator Frank Lautenberg sent earlier this week, Ray LaHood, President Obama's Secretary of Transportation, announced that the popular Northeast Corridor has been designated as the 11th and final High-Speed Rail corridor. ..
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This morning, House Transportation Committee Chair John Mica told transit professionals gathered at the American Public Transportation Association's legislative conference that he's still hoping to pass a bill out of the House by May in order to get it signed before September 30, when the current extension of SAFETEA-LU expires...   Read On

President Obama was right to emphasize high-speed rail development in his January State of the Union address. Investing in our passenger rail infrastructure will create construction jobs, keep our steel factories busy, and make our economy more competitive...   Read On

Big cities are not typically Tea Party territory, but if the new Republican members of Congress apply their libertarian principles assiduously to a few key federal policies, they could do much for urban America...   Read On

The US Department of Transportation has officially designated the Northeast Corridor the "eleventh and final" high-speed rail corridor. (You can read the DOT's letter here: 110314 NEC Corridor Letter) The designation means that Amtrak can apply directly for high-speed rail funding - as opposed to states applying individually for their segment of the line...   Read On

Officials from more than 30 public transit systems came to Washington this week to tell Congress that most of them don't have the money to keep up with demand as rising gas prices boost ridership. But a key House Republican said Tuesday that transit systems needed to streamline their operations, and not count on Congress for more money...   Read On

The rest of the world calls them bullet trains because they go so fast. But in the United States, the nickname is apt for a different reason: They keep getting shot down. The nation's first true high-speed railroad was supposed to leave the station in 2015, a sleek Tomorrowland-worthy train that would have whisked riders between Orlando and Tampa at speeds of up to 168 miles an hour...   Read On