By Brett Harrell, Paul C. Jablonski, and Christopher Reilly, Inside Sources; November 21, 2017
As the fall grain harvest wraps up and we head toward the holiday season, the importance of efficient, reliable transportation in our lives is front and center. And though infrastructure investment has been discussed as a priority of the Trump administration and Congress, it remains a distant possibility.
At the very least, policymakers should do no harm – ensuring today’s reliable infrastructure, particularly private infrastructure not financed by taxpayers, is kept strong. To that end, a pending regulatory proposal at the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) that would undermine freight rail operations and investment should be scrapped.
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