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President Proposes $50 Billion for Infrastructure

Wednesday, December 5th, 2012

Transportation Issues Daily
President Obama has resurrected his proposal to invest $50 billion in infrastructure and wants it included in the fiscal cliff deal. Republicans were immediately critical of the proposal.

Details were not released, but it is assumed that the proposal is similar to those previously announced by President Obama in 2010 and 2011. Those proposals have not passed the Democratic Senate or the Republican House. It’s debatable how hard the White House has pushed Congress to pass the proposal.

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Transportation-related Hurricane Sandy Photos, Parts 2 & 3

Friday, November 9th, 2012

Transportation Issues Daily Here is part two of our series of photos of Hurricane Sandy’s impact on transportation facilities and travelers. Grand Central Station was nearly empty on Tuesday. Image – Hiroko Masuike, NYT. People peeked into the closed Bowling Green subway station after Hurricane Sandy hit New York. Image – Justin Lane, European Pressphoto […]

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Transportation-related Hurricane Sandy photos

Tuesday, November 6th, 2012

Transportation Issues Daily

Here are a handful of photos about Hurricane Sandy’s impact on transportation facilities and travelers. First up is a video from the New York Times’ Erik Olsen.

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy and the unprecedented problems with public transportation, some commuters have chosen a different kind of transport: the two-wheeled, human-powered kind:

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$11.4 Billion Cut in Federal Transportation Spending Recommended

Monday, October 8th, 2012

Transportation Issues Daily The fiscal cliff and automatic budget cuts could be avoided by cutting$11.4 billion from federal transportation spending in 2013 and $187 billion over ten years. The recommended reductions from Taxpayers for Common Sense are part of a $2 trillion package of cuts to “inefficient, ineffective, or wasteful” programs and projects that would solve the […]

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Five Transportation Stories That Will Shape the Year Ahead

Thursday, September 27th, 2012

Transportation Issues Daily Lloyd Brown has done it again, publishing another must-read story, “Five transportation stories that will shape the year ahead,” that gives us a serious case of envy. Here are the five issues, but you’ll have to read the transportation communication guru’s whole story here to learn why Brown picks these issues. Funding MAP-21 […]

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Details of Possible $1.5 Billion Funding Cut to Roads, Transit and Rail

Thursday, September 20th, 2012

Transportation Issues Daily Preliminary estimates released by the White House last Friday indicate funding for highways, transit and rail programs in 2013 will be cut by about $1.5 billion on January 2 if automatic budget cuts take place as scheduled. Shrinking or preventing those cuts requires Congress and the White House to strike a budget […]

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Good & Bad News for Transportation Funding, and Environment

Friday, August 10th, 2012

Transportation Issues Daily First-half 2012 sales of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles hold some good and bad news for transportation and environment stakeholders. January-June sales of electric-only cars rose 6% – an increase of just 234 cars – over 2011. A little over 4100 EVs were purchased. However, plug-in hybrid vehicles sales increased 381% in […]

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Infrastructure Bank: Tricky, But Just Do It

Friday, July 27th, 2012

Transportation Issues Daily Can’t we stop wringing our hands about the concerns of establishing a National Infrastructure Bank and just do it? For years a National Infrastructure Bank has been touted as the “next greatest idea” for financing our most pressing infrastructure needs.  But we don’t seem to get to the next step.  I’ve been […]

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Three Myths about the Trucking Industry

Thursday, June 21st, 2012

Transportation Issues Daily Truckers may well be the unsung heroes of the U.S. economy. They deliver 70% of all freight tonnage, while 80% of U.S. communities receive goods exclusively by truck.  One out of every 13 people working in our private sector is employed in a trucking-related job across manufacturing, retail, public utility, construction, service, […]

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Larry Ehl, Founder and Publisher, Transportation Issues Daily

Tuesday, June 19th, 2012

Larry Ehl, founder and publisher of Transportation Issues Daily (TID). After more than two decades as a government affairs and transportation professional – including about eight years as Federal Relations Manager for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) – in 2009 he started what became a nationally recognized blog on federal transportation issues. His […]

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