Earlier this year, we reported that the US Department of Transportation (DOT) cancelled millions in grants for the high speed rail project that California Governor Gavin Newsom has substantially scaled back.
Newsom has tried fighting this move, arguing that California needed these funds to complete a more limited-scale project than the Los...
President Donald Trump and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao have a plan to make air travel better: privative air traffic control. From CNN Money:
“We live in a modern age, but our air traffic control system is stuck, painfully, in the past,” he said at a White House event attended by current and...
Obamacare repeal and tax reform seem to be in political limbo for the moment. In the meantime, Trump is moving forward with his plan to improve infrastructure.
John Wagner reports at the Washington Post:
The last time we checked in on the construction of California Governor Jerry Brown’s legacy project, the high speed train connecting Los Angeles to San Fransisco, it was already already $3.6 billion over budget and seven years behind schedule.
In that piece, I a surmised that federal funding to help complete this...
