Director of Infrastructure Policy at Institute for Progress. Formerly with Senator Brian Schatz, Boston City Council, Massachusetts Senate. A city is not an accident.
Will Poff-Webster
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A lot to like in this Transit Abundance Playbook.
ifp.org/transit-abun...
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...
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.)
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...
