America’s Government Is Gridlocked. Its Roads Don’t Have To Be.
This summer, roadway construction season will not be interrupted after all, as Congress passed another “patch” to the Highway Trust Fund to take us up to May of 2015. But how do we expect the U.S. DOT...
View ArticleMassachusetts Transportation for 2015
As we turn the corner on 2014 and on eight years of the Patrick administration, transportation stakeholders in Massachusetts wonder what 2015 and beyond will bring five years after the creation of the...
View ArticleTime To Look At A Metropolitan Transportation System
Today is the day we no longer need to imagine the observation made by policymakers in the recent debates on transportation revenue - if you don’t think the MBTA is important to riders and non-riders...
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The FAST Act Seeks to Streamline the Environmental Review of Infrastructure...
On December 4, 2015, President Obama signed into law the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act—a five-year, $305-billion transportation authorization and spending bill. The FAST Act...
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Public Transportation Woes Are Not Just In Boston
Since last winter, whenever you say “snow” in Boston, people automatically think: will the MBTA shutdown? The Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce recently hosted a particularly interesting forum on how...
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MassDEP and CZM Propose Changes to Chapter 91 Regulations
MassDEP and the Commonwealth’s office of Coastal Zone Management recently proposed draft changes to the Designated Port Area and Facility of Public Accommodation regulations under the Chapter 91...
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Big Changes With LIttle Fanfare: The FHWA Proposes to Use GHG Emissions as a...
This week, the Federal Highway Administration issued a Noticed of Proposed Rulemaking to promulgate performance measures to be used in evaluating federal funding of transportation projects. The...
View ArticleValue Capture – The Beginning of the State-Local Transportation Match
Next week, Governor Baker’s economic development bill will begin to emerge from the Legislature now that versions of his original bill have passed both branches of the legislature and are headed for a...
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The Nation’s Transportation Future Is Increasingly Local
This post originally appeared in Law360. Reprinted with permission. There is no debate that the gridlock in Congress has impacted national transportation policy. It was good news in December of 2015...
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Transportation CO2 Surpasses Power Sector CO2: Good News or Bad?
Last week, DOE announced that transportation sector CO2 emissions in the US exceeded power sector CO2 emissions for the first time since 1978. Why? The combination of increasing vehicle miles traveled...
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