The Second Avenue Subway cost more, per mile, than any transit project in history. If we can bring costs down — and our just-launched Transit Abundance Playbook lays out 15 federal levers that would do that — we can build much, much more transit, even in a hostile funding environment.
We spent the last six months working with 17 transit experts to produce 40,000 words on fixing transit delivery — because California spent 16 years (so far) and 1 billion dollars to produce 100,000 pages of environmental review. (The train still doesn't exist.)
Reupping this.
New York spent 18x what Madrid spends, per mile, on the Second Ave Subway.
America pays more for less, but we haven't known how to fix it.
We published the Transit Abundance Playbook to change that, with 15 specific ideas: ifp.org/transit-abun...
Reed Schwartz
Reed Schwartz
A lot to like in this Transit Abundance Playbook.
ifp.org/transit-abun...
CPE's transit program is on a roll!
Here's @jmooreotto.bsky.social featured in IFP's transit abundance playbook with a proposal near and dear to my heart: You can't do long-term capital planning with capricious grant funding!
ifp.org/loans-can-st...
My colleague @jmooreotto.bsky.social is in @ifp.bsky.social’s Transit Cost Playbook. He argues for replacing discretionary grant financing for transit projects with federal loans!
The current regime shreds state planning capacity due to intermittent and capricious funding.
ifp.org/loans-can-st...
SENATE AMENDMENT TO HOUSE AMENDMENT TO SENATE AMENDMENT
Looks like we're going to get a federal housing bill after all!! All it's going to take is three different votes in both chambers lol
(but this looks* to be the version yet!)
*pending further review on my (and Niskanen's) part
Permitting allows utilities and local govs to delay and extract pricey concessions from projects like CAHSR. We need standardized, time-bound, and transparent administrative processes to deal with utility and other 3rd party permits, like the Italian Conference of Services: ifp.org/transit-proj...
New York spent 18x what Madrid spends, per mile, on the Second Ave Subway.
America pays more for less, but we haven't known how to fix it.
We published the Transit Abundance Playbook to change that, with 15 specific ideas: ifp.org/transit-abun...
Consistent and predictable funding builds state capacity
