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For 15 years, Transportation for America worked with the Southern Rail Commission, federal officials like Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker, and other partners to restore passenger rail service to the Gulf Coast. Launching Amtrak’s Mardi Gras service required rallying support from leaders in Louisiana, Mississippi, and

TransportationCamp DC is coming back! Mark your calendar for Saturday, January 9, 2027, and get ready to join hundreds of transportation professionals and enthusiasts from across the country for another day of big ideas, new connections, and lively conversations about the future of transportation.Last year, more

The Trump administration has made history…as the first to not approve or advance a single transit capital project in their first year and a half in office. Considering what we heard directly from USDOT Secretary Duffy last week, no one should believe that’s a coincidence. For

Retiring Southern Rail Commission (SRC) member John Spain was instrumental in transforming the commission and focusing its efforts on restoring passenger rail in the Gulf Coast. Among many other things, his legacy is the year-old Mardi Gras line serving tens of thousands of people. T4America

If there was any lingering confusion about the Trump administration’s willingness to faithfully and fully implement any current or future bipartisan deal on transportation reauthorization that Congress might consider, USDOT Secretary Duffy’s unhinged letter to Senate leadership about the administration’s reauthorization priorities should put a

States are finally starting to allocate their transportation funding toward road repairs, but it might be too little, too late to see much improvement anytime soon. Our newest edition of Repair Priorities found that while states have started to shift more spending toward maintenance over

The federal transportation program’s current approach is failing. Under the status quo, roads have become more dangerous, the maintenance backlog has grown, and the program continues to prioritize highway expansion over investing in transit. Last month, Senate Democrats circulated a letter calling for changes to

We are repeatedly told that it’s a bridge too far for Congress to require states to fix it first—to prioritize repairing their existing infrastructure before building new roadway capacity. Yet that’s the exact approach laid out in the House’s bipartisan INVEST Act proposal in the