PenTrans Update - Boondoggles, Awful Commutes, Tunnel Decay

May 5th, 2017

Boondoggles, Awful Commutes, Tunnel Decay

In This Issue

Pennsylvania

New Jersey

Carbon Pricing

Pennsylvania

House approves bill to restore state,
local control of transportation planning
-Ripon Advance

Westmoreland County Transit Authority
to Review, Revise Commuter Routes
-Mass Transit

Cumberland County Commissioners
rejects Capital Area Transit
proposed 2017-18 budget
-Fox 43

SEPTA Key Implementation
Moves Forward
-Mass Transit

Partnership to Open 29 CNG Stations
for Pennsylvania Public Transit
-NGT News

PennDOT bridge project could
revive North Pocono trail proposal
-Scranton Times-Tribune

SEPTA Board must remove
conflicts of interest, conduct hearings
on Nicetown gas plant
-350Philadelphia

Free Rides for Seniors
Coming on Regional Rail
-Mass Transit

Norfolk Southern to develop
second Pittsburgh route for
double-stack freight cars
-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

SEPTA launches new
electronic bid system
-Progressive Railroading

Proposed Budget Cuts Would
Stop Amtrak Service to Erie
-Mass Transit

Midstate transit battle heats up
-Central Penn Business Journal

Gov. Wolf Announces
New State Investments in
Rail Projects, Supporting 375 Jobs
-AKVNews.com

Vote coming up on

new vehicle registration fee

-Lock Haven Express

SEPTA Adds Hundreds of

Parking Spots to Montgomery

County Regional Rail Station

- NBC 10

Railroad supports regional growth

-Daily Item

SEPTA, Lansdale council
respond to garage questions
-The Reporter

SEPTA Tests Free WiFi on Certain Buses
-NBC 10

Suddenly, you can use electronic
payments on SEPTA's Airport Line
-Billy Penn

PennDOT grants more than $1 million
to Bucks County freight rail projects
-Bucks Co. Courier Times

MARC stop in Elkton moves forward, Perryville MARC facility stalls
-Cecil Whig

Bike trails abound throughout Western Pa.
-TribLive

Fitzgerald to drop opposition to
extending Mon-Fayette Expressway
-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

PUC approves $3.5 million
settlement with Uber
-Fox43

New Jersey

As Christie Hounds Amtrak,
N.J. Transit Safety Fines Mount

-Bloomberg

Lawmakers Want to Know

Just How Awful N.J.

Commute May Get

-Bloomberg

NY, NJ senators invite transportation
secretary to view decaying train tunnels
-Reuters

#NoPayMay NJ Transit protest
popular online, but not so much in Bergen
-NorthJersey.com

Christie Spoke to Trump About
Need for Rail Tunnel to Manhattan
-Bloomberg

As rail woes persist, Christie mum
on tunnel project he axed

-Normangee Star

Christie's Successor Will Face
Transportation Tests
-U.S. News

NJ Transit line's busiest station
celebrates its 100th birthday
-nj.com

D.C. Agrawal and Martin E. Robins
End N.Y.'s transit dysfunction
by merging all rails into a
single Penn Station

Nation and World

New Study Identifies Nine of the Worst
Highway Projects Across the Country.
$10 Billion in Taxpayer Dollars Wasted

-U.S. PIRG

Trump's $1 Trillion Bill Can't Fix
US Roads-These Ideas Could

-Wired

Old New York Sees
New Infrastructure on Horizon

-U.S. News

NY to Invest $112M in Bicycle

and Pedestrian Transportation

-U.S. News

How to Spot a Highway Boondoogle

-StreetsBlog USA

Key to Improving Subway Service

in New York? Modern Signals

-NY Times

Cuomo Has the Opportunity
to Fix Penn Station, but Will He?
-NY Times

Amtrak's Plan for Penn Station Repairs

Calls for 44 Days of Closed Tracks

-NY Times

Amtrak at a Junction: Invest in
Improvements, or Risk Worsening Problems -NY Times

Editorial Let Penn Station Breathe

-NY Times

Regional travel demand: A euphemism
for unsustainable car trips
-Congress for New Urbanism

Kansas City Mayor Sly James

Trump's proposed cuts to federal
transit funding will harm American cities

-The Hill

Rethinking traffic theory in the age of Uber

Univ. of Alabama

Midsize and Small Cities
Have Important Role in
Saving Federal Transit Funding
-Next City

Cedar Rapids Considers Appeal
of Traffic Camera Ruling
-Iowa Public Radio

Robert Puentes
Transportation at a Crossroads
-U.S. News

How to Profit from the Coming
Infrastructure and Transportation Boom

-NASDAQ

If Trump wants to save U.S. infrastructure,
he needs to care about climate change
-CNN

Trumps' Tax Reform Plans
To Depend Upon An Untruth -
That Tax Cuts Pay For Themselves
-Forbes

9 radical changes that are
coming to transportation
-Vox

Carbon Pricing
A tax plan to stop climate change -MIT News Avoid the Carbon Tax Trap -U.S. News Carbon Tax Now, or Carbon Tax Later? Some Say It's Just a Matter of Time -Seattle Weekly

News of Trump
Sam Brodey Donald Trump is making huge promises about rebuilding America's infrastructure. Does that include trains? -Minnpost Trump Raises Stakes For Urban Journalism -Planetizen Trump looks to Australia for infrastructure guide -The Edge Markets