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Cutting Federal Transit Funding Won’t Close Budget Gaps — But Will Make Transportation Less Affordable
The Trump administration's proposal to eliminate the mass transit account of the Highway Trust Fund would be short-signed, ineffective, and ruinous, a new analysis finds.
Yonah Freemark
November 19, 2025
Trump Admin Seeks To Decimate Federal Transit Funding
"When you're talking about taking away money from transit, your proposal is flawed from the get-go," said one expert.
November 17, 2025
Trust Fund Babies: Advocates Argue House-Proposed EV Fee Won’t Solve Highway Funding Woes
An EV fee might make a dent in America's staggering transportation bills — but until the highway network stops growing out of control, it won't help for long.
April 30, 2025
The User-Pay Myth: Everyone — Not Just Drivers — Pays for Our Roads
It's sort of the central myth of American transportation. Let's debunk it once and for all.
Dave Cooke
March 26, 2025
Study: Two-Thirds of Americans Know Highway Expansions Don’t Cure Traffic
"The public is way ahead of the elected officials, and it's way ahead of the transportation officials in [talking about] the kind of future they want to see."
The post Study: Two-Thirds of Americans Know Highway Expansions Don’t Cure Traffic appeared first on Streetsblog USA.
June 29, 2023
White House Economic Report Touts TIGER, High-Speed Rail, Transit
The White House Council of Economic Advisers' first annual report under President Obama made headlines
today for its gloomy job-creation outlook, but tucked inside its 462
pages is a tangible reflection of a changed outlook on transportation
policy under the new administration.
February 12, 2010
Transit and Congestion, an Indirect Connection
Yesterday, Freakonomics linked to a new piece of research
[PDF] on congestion that I'd been musing over for a few days. Let me
quote the abstract here (paragraph break and emphasis mine):
October 2, 2009
Senate Agrees on $26.8 Billion Highway Trust Fund Rescue
The Senate took a major step forward last night in its battle
with the House over transportation funding, releasing a plan to give
$26.8 billion to the dwindling highway trust fund and -- perhaps most
importantly, for the long term -- to restore the fund's ability to keep the interest it earns.
July 21, 2009
Boxer and Inhofe Agree: Transportation Policy Reform Can Wait
Green transportation advocates are pressing Congress
to refuse any new spending that's not tied to reform of the existing
system -- a call that influential senators in both parties ruled out
today.
June 25, 2009
STAA Tuned: Transpo Bill Leaves Funding Question Hanging
We now have in our hands the 775-page Surface Transportation Authorization Act,
which was released yesterday by James Oberstar (D-MN), chairman of the
House transportation committee. It is, in many ways, a remarkable bill
-- a blueprint for how transportation planning and infrastructure
construction might undergo a significant shift away from the mindsets
that have dominated for the past half-century. There is a lot to like
in the bill.
June 23, 2009