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Transportation for America (T4America)—a program of Smart Growth America—is seeking a highly skilled individual with deep knowledge, experience, and interest in federal transportation policy development and state/local implementation to help lead the organization’s policy work—with an immediate focus on the ongoing federal reauthorization process. The ideal

Congress will propose nearly anything other than raising the gas tax to fix the highway trust fund. If Congress actually addressed the program’s total failure to deliver outcomes, maybe it would be easier to build broad support for raising significant new transportation funding.Since 2008, the

Over the past month, T4America organized briefings for Hill staffers (one each for the House and Senate) about the federal surface transportation reauthorization process to help them advance their members’ priorities, but also hopefully to encourage them to take a more skeptical look at a

The Trump administration’s attempt to rip out a protected cycletrack in the nation’s capital has been temporarily delayed by a lawsuit. For everyone else, the USDOT is hoping to cut off those fights before they even start by cancelling billions for these safety projects before

More often than not, transit is viewed as a public good reserved for bigger cities like New York, Chicago, Boston, and Washington, DC. However, scores of suburban communities have invested in transit to give residents more affordable and reliable ways to reach jobs, services, and

With only three real possible options to stave off the looming bankruptcy* of the nation’s transportation trust fund, a Senator has proposed choosing one of them: scale the nation’s transportation program down to the size of the revenues users pay into it. *No, the trust fund

According to the latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office, Americans are set to pay over $80 billion more in gas taxes thanks to new transportation policies implemented under the Trump administration. The kicker? This won’t fix the Highway Trust Fund’s insolvency problem, and it

Recent reports indicate that the U.S. Department of Transportation may direct Amtrak to undertake a significant organizational restructuring. Transportation for America offers the following statement.Transportation for America has spent decades pushing for the reforms needed to deliver the reliable, affordable, and connected service Americans deserve.

Building on a year of efforts to deregulate fuel-efficiency standards and cancel grants to build out transportation options, the Environmental Protection Agency repealed a critical finding that helped regulate emissions. While concerning, this is ultimately another uninspired move in a decades-long line of failed attempts