PenTrans Update
March 6th, 2017
Will Trump "Zero Out" Federal Transit Funding?
In This Issue
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Trump: Transportation
Nation & World
Parking & Carbon Pricing
Pennsylvania
$2 billion now available for PA's
highways, roads, and bridges
-philly.com
Infrastructure Spending Sets
The Stage For PA Manufacturing
-WESA90.5
Pennsylvania Municipalities to
Receive Nearly $466.2 Million to Invest
in Local Roads, 5 Percent Increase
from Previous Year
-PR Newswire
Winner: Transportation funding
slightly increases as PA continues
to maintain system
-PennLive
PA: Vision 2017 Public Transit
a 'Life Link,' CamTran Executive Says
-Mass Transit
Construction Begins on Paoli Station Accessibility Improvements Project
-Mass Transit
PennDOT Announces Highway
Maintenance & Preservation Initiative
-CBS Pittsburgh
Amtrak, SEPTA chug toward full
wheechair access with Paoli upgrades
-philly.com
Kenney budget puts $90 million toward Penn's Landing park capping I-95
-PlanPhilly
Philly Council members propose plan to boost development near transit stops
-philly.com
New elevators for SEPTA's
30th Street trolley and El station
-PlanPhilly
Why a small item in Gov. Wolf's
budget proposal is a big deal for Pennsylvania public transit
-CityPaperPittsburgh
These two new SEPTA buses
will speed up transit in Philadelphia
-Daily Pennsylvanian
Uber's first college partnership
in Philly is with La Salle
-BillyPenn
Maryland trains to Newark inch closer
-DelawareOnline
Pa. steel revival: Energy boom, rail hopes, Trump order
-philly.com
Addressing Centre County's failing
bridges to require joint effort
-Centre Daily Times
Pa.'s bridges 3rd most 'structurally deficient' in US. Here's why that's
not all bad news.
-York Daily Record
Analysis shows Pa. Turnpike toll
rates well above Ohio, N.Y., others
-Central Penn Business Journal
SEPTA investigates accident involving out-of-service trains
-newsworks
Bayfront Parkway tops Erie
transportation priorities
-GoErie
Pennsylvania budget:
5 hearings to watch
-Allentown Morning Call
Gov. Wolf's state police fee plan
a fraction of local police cost
-Delco Daily Times
Michael Baker lands
$5M SEPTA contract
-Pittsburgh Business Times
SEPTA Announces Expansion
of Horsham Breeze Service
-Mass Transit
Local transportation study
gets the go-ahead
-Johnstown Leader-Herald
Vision 2017 | On track?
Area leaders push for
expanded passenger rail service
-Johnstown Tribune-Democrat
GE Transportation focuses on service
as locomotive sales remain slow
-GoErie
New Jersey
Transportation Groups Push
Lobbying Spending to $68.3M
-U.S. News
DILTS: Maximize one-two punch
of transportation funding
-Asbury Park Press
Trains, not drains: New Jersey
lobbyists on way to swamp DC
-Washington Times
Uber, Lyft drivers must pass
background checks after Christie
OKs new law
-nj.com
Environment concerns shut down
Route 518 bridge construction
-nj.com
Margate receives $371,000 grant
for pedestrian and bike safety
-Press of Atlantic City
What's Wrong with NJ Transit?
Commuters Get to Weigh In
-NJSpotlight
Kapsch selected for
Port
Authority
of NY and NJ's
transportation
m
anagement software
-
Ajot
Plans Underway For Statewide
Greenway Connecting Jersey
City
With Phillipsburg
-Jersey Digs
New Jersey Area Rising Around
Transit Hub Lacks One Thing: Its Hub
-NY Times
New Jersey's Bayonne Bridge
Reopens, But Work Remains
to Remove Old Deck
-Transport Topics
Paul Mulshine
Taken for a ride on NJ Transit:
I pity the poor commuter
who deals with this daily
-nj.com
NJ agency paying millennials to
throw parties and discuss transportation
-NJ101.5
Trump: Transportation
Trump's Commitment to
Infrastructure Vow
Is Being Questioned
-NewsMax
Trump to Undo Vehicle Rules
That Curb Global Warming
-NY Times
Trump's First Budget May Zero Out
Federal Transit Funding
-StreetsBlog USA
Liam Migdail-Smith
How will Trump pay for
his infrastructure plan?
-Reading Eagle
Pennsylvania lawmaker says Trump infrastructure plan not all gov't money
-PhillyVoice
Devil in details of Trump's
infrastructure plan
-Allentown Morning Call
Trump's Impact On Infrastructure,
Mfg, Trade & Transportation
-Distribution Industry
Missing: Donald Trump's
Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure Plan
-NY Times
Trump's 'sanctuaries' crackdown
imperils transportation projects
-Politico
Fixing America's failing infrastructure won't be easy, despite Trump's pledge
-The Guardian
Trump Advisers' Tax Credit Plan
for Infrastructure Has Risks
-NewsMax
Nation & World
US transportation projects
on hold for lack of authorization bill
-SteelGuru
Under Hood of US Construction
Spending Is Government Pullback
-Transport Topics
Elaine Chao: More Tolls May Be
Coming
to Roads, Bridges Soon
-Newsmax
Business, unions ramp up campaign
for U.S. infrastructure spending
-Reuters
Senator seeks details on
infrastructure plan
-Toledo Blade
US Governors Annual Meeting
to Focus
on $1 Trillion
Infrastructure Plan
-Voice of America
Edward R. Hamberger, AAR
Remember Railroads
When Talking Infrastructure
-Morning Consult
Local GOP Reps Counting on
Elaine Chao to Trip Up Transit Projects
-StreetsBlog USA
O'Toole: Transit doesn't need
state taxpayer funding
-Colorado Statesman
What's missing from
Amtrak's claim that we rely
'more than ever' on trains
-Politifact
Full steam ahead: Why transit hub development is seeing a resurgence
-DConstructionDive
The Oroville Dam Crisis
Exposes the Flaws in
Trump's Infrastructure Plan
-CityLab
Farm Groups Ask Trump Administration for Transportation Infrastructure Updates
-Farm Bureau
As subway delays double, Cuomo
may cut MTA funding by $65 million
-6sqft
Uber vs. Transit in NYC
-CityLab
MTA subway ridership dropped
in 2016; first decline since 2009
-amNewYork
Downtown Seattle Added 45,000
Jobs and Hardly Any Car Commuters
-StreetsBlogUSA
Smart transportation market
'worth US$285.12 billion by 2024'
-ITSInternational
Tomorrow's Transportation
Ecosystem: From Autonomous
Vehicles to Public Transit
-Wharton School
GM May Soon Have 'Thousands'
Of Self-Driving Electric Bolts
In A Lyft Test Fleet
-Forbes
United States Has 5 Of World's
10 Most Congested Cities
-Forbes
How Volkswagen's Deceit Could
Help Accelerate an Electric
Revolution in Transportation
-U.S.PIRG
A Push for Diesel Leaves
London
Gasping Amid Record Pollution
-NY Times
As France's Towns Wither,
Fears of a Decline in 'Frenchness'
-NY Times
Parking
Dr. Paul Barter
Toward Adaptive Parking
-H2 Foundation
A zoning code can't
change
its
[parking] spots
-The Real Deal
Carbon Pricing
Carbon tax an elegant,
market-based policy
-philly.com
Clean Power Plan Repeal Would
Cost America $600 Billion, Cause
120,000 Premature Deaths
-Forbes
A carbon tax can help keep
nuclear energy in the picture
-The Hill
Is The Renewable Transition
Harming The U.S. Economy?
-Nasdaq
Electrek green energy brief:
Exxon carbon tax blog post yesterday, Norway being pushed to invest,
NC county bans solar farms...
-Electrek
UPDATED: New fuels 'will power
the world fleet by 2050'
-Tanker Shipping & Trade
Pa. owed 'hundreds of thousands of dollars' in royalties from forest drilling
-State Impact Pa
NYT, WaPo, Time, CNN Praise
'Republican' Calls for Carbon Tax
-Climate Depot
California Lurches For A
Carbon Tax
After Consecutive
Greenhouse
Gas Auction Failures
-Forbes
What Is Wrong with a Carbon Tax
Scientific American
'Disastrous': Australia's carbon
emissions jump as coal-fired
power ramps up
-Forbes Advocate
The Northeast's carbon trading
system works quite well. It
just doesn't reduce much carbon
-Vox
We need a carbon tax to
combat global warming
-The Olympian
Exxon's New Chief Endorses
Carbon Tax to Combat Climate Change
-Bloomberg
PenTrans Board of Directors
Co-Chairs
Beverly Harper
Portfolio Associates, Inc.
Thomas J. Spearing, III.
Hill International, Inc.
Secretary-Treasurer
Tom Halterman
Urban Engineers, Inc.
Edward M. D'Alba
Urban Engineers, Inc.
Richard Amodei
STV, Inc.
Peter Angelides
Econsult Soultions, Inc.
Rich Bickel
Econsult Solutions, Inc.
Bert Cossaboon
McCormick Taylor
Peter Denitz
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Julie Green
LTK
Jeff Hans
HDR
Elizabeth Hansmann
Jacobs
David Hollis
HNTB
Alex Houseal
AECOM
Marilyn Jamison
Michael Baker Corp.
Adam Krom
Amtrak
Herman Lloyd
JMT
Herman Lloyd
JMT
Marc Preim
STV, Inc.
Megan Syrnick
WTS
Anna Lynn Smith
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Mark Stout
Mark L. Stout Consulting
Alanna Strohecker
AECOM
Richard P. Voith
Econsult Solutions, Inc.
Emille L. Williams
COMTO
PenTrans Advisory Group
Beverly Coleman
Temple University
Joseph DiFiore
PB
Jenny Granger
JMT
Karen Gelman
Amtrak
Court Gould
Sustainable Pittsburgh
Joseph Guzzi
HNTB
Chris Jandoli
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Carol Martsolf
WTS
Patrick Starr
Penn Environmental Council
Julie Green
LTK Engineering Services
Vukan Vuchic
UPenn (Ret.)
Rick Wooten
Malady & Wooten
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