Lawmakers unswayed by Ethiopian crash report By SAM MINTZ, With help from Stephanie Beasley and Alex Guillén, Politco Morning Report;…
By Art Carden, Contributor, Forbes; March 29, 2019 My recent article arguing that we should cut federal subsidies to Amtrak…
By J. Bruce Richardson; March 12, 2019 The Trump Administration submitted its proposed Fiscal Year 2020 federal budget to Congress…
By Frank N. Wilner, Capitol Hill Contributing Editor, Railway Age Magazine; March 9, 2019 WATCHING WASHINGTON, MARCH 2019 – Amtrak…
By SAM MINTZ, With Help From Brianna Gurciullo, Politico Morning Transportation; March 7, 2019 — Some House Democratic transportation leaders…
By Frank N. Wilner, Capitol Hill Contributing Editor, Railway Age Magazine; November 14, 2018 From the November 2018 issue of Railway Age:…
A press release from the House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee; July 23, 2018: Washington, D.C. – This Congress,…
From Progressive Railroading Magazine; May 29, 2018 The U.S. House Appropriations Committee last week approved a $71.8 billion transportation, housing…
By Joseph A. Boardman, Railway Age Magazine; May 10, 2018 Having spent much of my productive life at the state…
By John Brown Miller, Washington Examiner; April 8, 2018 The federal role in financing state infrastructure remains upside down. Instead…
By Josh Barro, Business Insider; March 25, 2018 For President Donald Trump, I’m sure it’s mostly about a grudge. Chuck…
By Alon Levy, City Lab; March 21, 2018 Holding up the spending bill in Congress this week: a fight over…
By DANA RUBINSTEIN, RYAN HUTCHINS and LAUREN GARDNER, Politico; March 21, 2018 Congressional leaders have agreed to include $540 million…
By Bart Jansen, USA TODAY; March 21, 2018 WASHINGTON — Amtrak gets nearly $2 billion in federal funding, rather than a…
By Henry Goldman, Bloomberg; March 16, 2018 The $12.7 billion Gateway commuter-rail tunnel opposed by President Donald Trump will get…
By Ryan Beene and Thomas Black, Bloomberg Businessweek; March 16, 2018 It’s been a tough few months even by the…
By LAUREN GARDNER, With help from Brianna Gurciullo, Tanya Snyder and Stephanie Beasley, Politico Morning Transportation; March 15, 2018 TUNNEL…
By John Reitmeyer, New Jersey Spotlight; September 26, 2017 Building the proposed Gateway rail tunnel is more urgent than many…