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Jun 28, 2024 | 
enotrans.org | Jonathan Hammond |Jeff Davis |Karen Price |Philip M. Plotch
This article is a part of our series From Lighthouses to Electric Chargers: A Presidential Series on Transportation InnovationsWhen Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president and vehement slavery opponent, was elected president in 1860, Hannibal Hamlin from Maine served as his vice president. But for the 1864 election, as the Civil War was starting to wind down, the Republican party leaders replaced Hamlin with Andrew Johnson, a Democrat from the southern state of Tennessee.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
enotrans.org | Philip M. Plotch
When New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, postponed America’s first congestion pricing program this month, she inadvertently hit pause on the project that has come to symbolize America’s unfulfilled transit ambitions. On June 18, the head of the construction subsidiary for New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) admitted that the agency had “stopped work” on the second phase of the Second Avenue subway.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
enotrans.org | Jonathan Hammond |Jeff Davis |Karen Price |Philip M. Plotch
This article is a part of our series From Lighthouses to Electric Chargers: A Presidential Series on Transportation InnovationsAlthough historians have not been kind to James Buchanan, the nation’s 15th president was known for embracing new technologies from refrigerators to railways. His inauguration, as shown below, was the first to be photographed. During Buchanan’s term, an information revolution was brewing.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
enotrans.org | Jonathan Hammond |Jeff Davis |Karen Price |Philip M. Plotch
Even-numbered years are not an auspicious time to advance a congestion pricing program in New York because these are election years with campaigns for every U.S. House of Representative, State Assembly, and State Senate seat. The calendar explains why the prospects for congestion pricing were more promising in the odd years of 2017 and 2023 rather than the politically charged atmosphere of even years like 2024.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
enotrans.org | Jonathan Hammond |Jeff Davis |Karen Price |Philip M. Plotch
This article is a part of our series From Lighthouses to Electric Chargers: A Presidential Series on Transportation InnovationsBy the 1850s, the U.S. had more than 17,000 miles of railroad tracks that were bringing coal, timber and agricultural products from previously inaccessible areas to rapidly growing markets.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
enotrans.org | Jeff Davis |Karen Price |Jonathan Hammond |Philip M. Plotch
This article is a part of our series From Lighthouses to Electric Chargers: A Presidential Series on Transportation InnovationsThis is the ninth article in our series about transportation and U.S. presidents. Appropriately, given the length of William Henry Harrison’s term in office, it will also be our shortest. As a congressman from Ohio, Harrison supported federal funding for roads and canals as a way to spur growth in the west as well as integrate and strengthen the American economy.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
enotrans.org | Jeff Davis |Karen Price |Jonathan Hammond |Philip M. Plotch
This article is a part of our series From Lighthouses to Electric Chargers: A Presidential Series on Transportation InnovationsMartin Van Buren had a strong opinion about the federal government’s role in funding infrastructure projects (known at the time as “internal improvements.”) As a U.S. Senator from New York in the 1820s, Van Buren helped thwart President John Quincy Adams’ ambitious program of building new roads and canals.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
enotrans.org | Jeff Davis |Jonathan Hammond |Anusha Chitturi |Philip M. Plotch
The Senate Committee on Environment & Public works met Wednesday, December 6th to discuss the impact of funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, on various environmental programs and uses, including the Federal Highway Administration’s Wildlife Crossings Program.
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Dec 7, 2023 | enotrans.org | Jeff Davis |Jonathan Hammond |Anusha Chitturi |Philip M. Plotch
The Senate Committee on Environment & Public works met Wednesday, December 6th to discuss the impact of funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, on various environmental programs and uses, including the Federal Highway Administration’s Wildlife Crossings Program.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
enotrans.org | Jeff Davis |Jonathan Hammond |Anusha Chitturi |Philip M. Plotch
The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee yesterday approved the nomination of Todd Inman to be a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, raising hopes that Inman and another NTSB nominee can be confirmed by the full Senate by the end of the month. The Committee ordered Inman’s nomination to the NTSB favorably reported at a quick business meeting by a voice vote. His nomination has now been placed on the Senate Executive Calendar, where he is Number 447.
