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Fare free transit is great, but reliable services are better

Politicians are talking about the cost of transit–a valid and important issue impacting transit ridership. NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani utilized his campaign platform to shed more light on the policy idea. However, what people really need to increase their use of transit is reliable, frequent

Letter to Congress calls for penalties for failing to improve roadway safety

Nearly 40,000 people are dying on our roads each year, and Congress must take action to address the crisis by requiring changes in policy and practice. Last week, the National Complete Streets Coalition, Transportation for America, and a coalition of 24 other national, state, and

Looking back at five years of TransportationCamp DC!

TransportationCamp DC is back on January 10, 2026 after a year-long hiatus! We can’t wait to bring the “unconference” back to the District and welcome back transportation nerds, doers, and dreamers from across the nation.Whether you’ve ever been to TransportationCamp or not, it’s not your

The money mirage: How the fight over funding transportation distracts from outcomes

The conversation about how to fund the transportation system has dominated the reauthorization process at the expense of its core purpose: safely delivering people to the destinations they want to get to. To build a system that actually works for people, we must acknowledge what’s

Holding states and MPOs accountable for road safety

Everything in the federal transportation program has the word “safety” plastered all over it, but the program fails at nearly every turn to actually require safety improvements from those who are picking the projects and spending the money. Our roads will continue to be among

USDOT initiated another arbitrary freeze sowing chaos for chaos’s sake: Congress should take note

The Trump administration’s delay of the nation’s largest public transit and intercity passenger rail project underscores what Congress should already know: the Trump administration is a bad-faith partner and a clear threat to the legislative process.Earlier this week, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell

Statement: To demonstrate that the country can “build stuff again” and that it supports states setting transportation priorities, the Trump administration has delayed the nation’s largest public transit and intercity passenger rail project that is supported across the northeast.

Washington, D.C. (October 1) — Today, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought via X (formerly known as Twitter) and the United States Department of Transportation, announced the Trump administration has frozen approximately $18 billion in USDOT funding for the nation’s largest transit and

Here’s what’s making Congress’s funding deal so tough for transportation and what a shutdown means for USDOT

With both parties failing to reach an agreement on how to extend appropriations for federal agencies last night, we’ve entered a government shutdown, the first since 2019. While the main driver of this shutdown stems from Democrats’ intent to prevent the expiration of certain healthcare

Reforming state transportation plans to make safety the priority

Finding and deciphering the lists of transportation projects planned by states and metropolitan planning organizations are nearly impossible for the average person. The plans they do have often involve making roads faster and more dangerous and the goals they have are divorced from a supposed

We can’t expand passenger rail without the trains to run it

Communities want more options to travel quickly, safely, and affordably by train. Yet there is a fundamental problem holding us back: we don’t have enough trains to run the service people are asking for. An aging fleet, unreliable access to equipment, and a fragmented procurement