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How to Avoid Another FAA Fiasco

May 8, 2013, Clifford Winston
When budget cuts hit high-profile business travelers, you can get Congress to act.
April 30, 2013, Darrell M. West, Bloomberg
[Ray Lahood] brought a different perspective to Washington. He is a straight shooter, and I think he took transportation from the back of the political discussion to more of the forefront.
April 30, 2013, Robert Puentes, National Public Radio
GCI Atlanta Rountable: Atlanta from the Air

March 20, 2013, Adie Tomer
Flow Oil and Gas Revenues to Cleantech R&D: Common Ground on Energy?

March 18, 2013, Mark Muro
As a nation, we've got to figure out better, more long-term ways, more sustainable ways, to fund needed transportation projects without having to rely on this annual uncertainty which seems to be the norm instead of the exception now.
March 14, 2013, Robert Puentes, WAMU
Expand State Partnerships for Passenger Rail

March 13, 2013, Robert Puentes and Joseph Kane
15 years ago in this country, we thought that [telecommuting] was the death of distance and that it was just going to ruin cities and we didn't see that at all. We see that people really do benefit from face-to-face conversations. Face-to-face conversations are going to be critical for many, many metropolitan jobs. There are many jobs that will require you to be face-to-face. Telecommuting does have a role [but] it's not going to solve all of our problems.
March 10, 2013, Robert Puentes, WTOP Washington
New Partnerships for American Rail

March 1, 2013, Robert Puentes
[Amtrak is] too often considered a big, bloated bureaucracy that depends heavily on federal subsidies and is no longer relevant to the technologically oriented metropolitan economies of today.
March 1, 2013, Robert Puentes, CNN
The places we see Amtrak being competitive, running effective and efficient service, are in those places where the state already has some skin in the game. These are places where Amtrak is treated not as a big federal bureaucracy that's coming in but is actually part and parcel of the transportation plan.
March 1, 2013, Robert Puentes, USA Today
In order for metropolitan areas to compete, they have to be able to provide several different options for people in how they get around, for how business leaders are going to connect with other business leaders in different metropolitan areas and then how these regions are going to grow in the future. We are seeing continued congestion on the roadways, perhaps deterioration of the roadways in some cases, frustration with the airlines and looking at Amtrak as a potential alternative to some of the other modes.
March 1, 2013, Robert Puentes, Minnesota Public Radio
A New Alignment: Strengthening America's Commitment to Passenger Rail

March 1, 2013, Robert Puentes, Adie Tomer and Joseph Kane
Funding Transportation Infrastructure with User Fees

February 26, 2013, Jack Basso and Tyler Duvall
15 Ideas for Smart Deficit Reduction

February 20, 2013, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney, The Hamilton Project
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We’re moving from transportation's late 20th century federalism model where the federal government provides resources that rain down unencumbered to the state and metropolitan level.
January 29, 2013, Robert Puentes, The Atlantic
Crumbling Infrastructure Has Real and Enduring Costs

January 23, 2013, William A. Galston
A Remedy for Air Travel Woes

November 21, 2012, Clifford Winston
Strengthen Federalism: Establish a National PPP Unit to Support Bottom-Up Infrastructure Investment

November 13, 2012, Robert Puentes
Connecting to Opportunity: Access to Jobs via Transit in the Washington, D.C. Region

November 8, 2012, Martha Ross and Nicole Prchal Svajlenka
The Storm Heard Round the World: How Sandy Slammed Global Aviation

November 6, 2012, Adie Tomer
Federal Aviation Policy Must be Reformed, Updated

October 30, 2012, Adie Tomer
Global Gateways: International Aviation in Metropolitan America

October 25, 2012
Global Gateways: International Aviation in Metropolitan America

October 25, 2012, Adie Tomer, Robert Puentes and Zachary Neal
Global Gateways: International Aviation in Metropolitan America

October 12, 2012, Adie Tomer
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