PenTrans Update - Infrastructure Millions or Billions?

May 25th, 2017

INFRASTRUCTURE MILLIONS OR BILLIONS?

In This Issue

Pennsylvania

New Jersey

Carbon Pricing

Pennsylvania

Additional rail service between
Harrisburg, Pittsburgh under review

-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Port Authority says it will restore service
to Mifflin Estates, use part surplus to
balance proposed budget
-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

SEPTA has smooth ride through
City Council budget hearings
-PlanPhilly

SEPTA to improve user experience in
Center City's underground concourses
-PlanPhilly

Court ruling favors Joint Rail Authority
-Lock Haven Express

Pittsburgh Welcomed Uber's
Driverless Car Experiment.
Not Anymore.
-NY Times

Critics question Port Authority's
warrant checks
-Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Commissioners approve vehicle
registration fee increase in 2-1 vote
-Centre Daily Times

Lansdale residents sound off on
SEPTA parking, police chief search
-Lansdale Reporter

To help rail trail,

York bridge to be narrowed
-York Daily Record

Gov. Wolf appoints Obra Kernodle IV
to SEPTA board
-Philadelphia Tribune

SEPTA Taking Another Step Toward
Driving Transit Riders To New Fare System
-CBS Philly 3

Urban Solar Joins Pennsylvania
Public Transportation Association
-Mass Transit

Econsult Solutions Study
The nation's newest hot housing
market - Philadelphia
-MarketWatch

Environmentalists Protest SEPTA's
Planned Facility In Nicetown
-CBS Philly 3

Pennsylvania Transportation Exec
Leaving for Contractor Job
-U.S. News

SEPTA Gears Up For National Bike to Work Day
-Mass Transit

Amtrak Engineer Brandon Bostian
Surrenders on Charges From
Deadly Philadelphia Crash
-NBC News

SEPTA sets sights on final
PTC implementation steps
-RT&S

New Jersey

Christie Warns of Summer Detours
Into Hoboken for Many N.J. Transit Riders

-NY Times

Why Trump budget cuts could kill
vital N.J. transportation project
-nj.com

NJ Transit awards prep work contract
for Portal Bridge Project
-Railway Age

N.J. Senate: Old tunnels frightening,
two new ones needed
-NorthJersey.com

Gateway Tunnel Tops Agenda
at Transportation Conference
-NJTV News

Tunnels Aren't the Only Vision for
New Jersey Transit in the Governor's Race
-NY Times

Triple threat of train trouble
complicates evening NJ Transit commute
-nj.com

After years of construction,
the GWB bus station reopens

-NorthJersey.com

Steve Adubato
NJ Transit is On the Wrong Track
-New Jersey Monthly

Commuters share their NJ Transit
woes with Gottheimer
-nj.com

Commuters rail on NJ Transit: If this
were a private company, you'd be fired
-nj.com

Man orders pizza to stuck Amtrak train
-abc7ny

Collecting Fares Is Latest Problem
for New Jersey Transit
-NY Times

Community shuttle marks 2 years
with week of free rides
-nj.com

Nation and World

New York governor urges Trump to provide emergency funds for Penn Station

-Reuters

Penn Station repairs could divert
Amtrak trains to Grand Central Terminal
-Curbed

Amtrak to Hire Private Company to Manage
New York Penn Station Concourse
-U.S.News

Chao Calls Penn Station's Transit Woes
an 'Absolute Priority'
-Bloomberg

Trump's road plan runs into
skepticism on Capitol Hill
-Detroit News

Trump's infrastructure plan
won't contain list of projects
-The Hill

Time is now to address infrastructure needs
-The Hill

FTA greenlights Caltrain electrification funding -Railway Age

Public-Private Partnerships Will
Not Save U.S. Infrastructure
-StreetsBlog USA

Robert Puentes
How Can We Reverse
Declining Ridership?
-U.S. News

One City's Brilliantly Simple Plan
to Get Rid of Cars by 2019
-Inverse

Public Transportation Avoided President Trump's Axe. But 'a Very Serious Blow' Could be Coming

-Fortune

Senators reintroduce infrastructure
investment bill; APTA calls for
federal support for transit

-Progressive Railroading

Rosen named USDOT's deputy secretary

-Progressive Railroading

Higgins unveils $1.26 trillion
infrastructure bill for U.S.
roads, bridges, water systems

-WBFO Buffalo

Infrastructure expected to get
about $200bn of US budget
-Business Day

Blackstone Unveils $100 Billion
Ambition for Infrastructure
-Bloomberg

Infrastructure Week Preview -
Federal Infrastructure Grants:
How to Get Back to "Average?"
-Eno Transportation Weekly

Amid Divestment Protests,
More Cities Explore Public Banks
-Next City

Uber will start showing train and bus times
near your drop-off point
-The Verge

Carbon Pricing
Defying Trump, these state leaders are trying to impose their own carbon taxes -Washington Post This Is What a Trump Carbon Tax Would Look Like -The New Republic Canada the model for what not to do with carbon pricing -The Hill	Carbon Tax Now, or Carbon Tax Later? Some Say It's Just a Matter of Time -Seattle Weekly Former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker '52 Advocates for Carbon Tax -Daily Princetonian Carbon Tax: A Primer -The Huffington Post Moving the needle on American support for a carbon tax -University of Michigan