Capitol Hill News
Transportation Chair Graves will retire after 26 years in House: Rep. Sam Graves, who chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, is joining a growing list of lawmakers deciding not to seek reelection this year.
116 House members urge full funding for Amtrak rail programs: A formal letter reached the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies. At the same time, lawmakers warned that missing IIJA funding targets would jeopardize active repairs and expansion.
Federal Transportation News
Travel Patterns of American Adults with Disabilities: NHTS estimated that 18.6 million Americans age 5 and older (6.1 percent of all Americans in that age range) had self-reported travel-limiting disabilities; 10.0 million were age 18 to 64 (5.1 percent of persons age 18 to 64) and 7.7 million were age 65 and older (14.1 percent of persons age 65 and older).
Federal grants will pay for tribal nation transportation projects across Oklahoma: A dozen tribal nations in Oklahoma will receive more than $2 million in federal transportation safety grants, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation
The Trump administration tried to rip out a bike lane in DC. More than bike lanes are at risk nationwide: The Trump administration’s attempt to rip out a protected cycletrack in the nation’s capital has been temporarily delayed by a lawsuit. For everyone else, the USDOT is hoping to cut off those fights before they even start by canceling billions for these safety projects before shovels ever hit the ground.
Other Transportation News
UVA lab tests car safety features: A group of students and professors at UVA use heavy machinery and equipment to test car seats, seat belts, and airbags. There is a good chance their research is used in the car you drive.
Construction industry group meets with CT Congressional delegation about federal infrastructure bill: Members of the state Congressional delegation and a representative of a national transportation organization say getting that bill reauthorized is possible in the current session, despite the division in Washington, D.C.
