A provision in the latest deal would require cities and states building transit to commission a study, usually conducted by management consultants, giving private finance ‘a fair shot.’
Mobility, Transportation & Climate
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Infrastructure Summer: Public Transit Gets Funded—for Now
The infrastructure deal won’t dissuade the GOP from looking for new ways to defund public transportation.
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Infrastructure Summer: One Deal Forward, One Deal Back
The same day the bipartisan bill advances in the Senate, one of its key architects throws cold water on the reconciliation companion.
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Infrastructure Summer: The Untrained Bipartisan Deal-Makers
The senators negotiating the infrastructure package don’t have expertise in infrastructure, and it’s showing.
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Passenger Rail Is Not Dead Yet
Capitol Hill grudgingly funds Amtrak, and now the rail operator may have to compete with private-sector companies for federal dollars.
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Rethinking Commuting
Regional planners and transit agencies must figure out whether working from home or the allure of urban social life will prove stronger in post-pandemic America.
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Building Back Severed Communities
The Biden administration wants to reconnect historically Black and Latino neighborhoods cut off by highway construction. There’s promise and peril in that.
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Biden Gets Gateway Going as Cuomo Unleashes His Inner Trump
The president restarts the long-delayed Hudson River tunnel project, only to have the New York governor who once fought for the project throw himself on the tracks.
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Does Biden Think He Can?
Years ago, Barack Obama and Joe Biden tried to make high-speed rail happen. Now as president, does Biden want to finish the job?
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Los Angeles Turns Toward Free Fares
How far a fareless public-transit program goes will depend on a pilot program debuting in August.