Under the House Republicans’ proposal to bring more private competition to the nation’s most valuable transportation asset, the Northeast Corridor would remain in public hands. Transportation Committee Chair John Mica (R-FL) made clear that under his and Rail Subcommittee Chair Bill Shuster’s plan, “the public maintains ownership of the corridor; we’re not giving it to any private […]

Jeff Wood at Reconnecting America went to the CNU Congress in Madison and all we got was this interview with John Norquist. It happens to be a pretty timely and snappy interview, though. Angie wrote this morning about Kaid Benfield’s ideas about “right-sizing” Detroit. They focus on how sprawl has hollowed out the inner city while […]

Yesterday, Miller-McCune’s Michael Scott Moore accused Southwest Airlines of helping to bury a potential Texas bullet train 15 years ago. “Southwest understood better than most high-speed rail critics just how well the trains could work,” Moore wrote. “[High-speed rail in Spain] has reduced Spanish highway traffic — even for cargo, by freeing up space on […]

The BlueGreen Alliance, a union of labor and environmental interests, has released its own vision for a transportation reauthorization. The alliance has made the reauthorization one of its top priorities for the year. Just as business and labor have found a lot they agree on when it comes to infrastructure, so have environmentalists and labor. […]