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The Transit Infrastructure Lottery

Read the full report here. Executive summary Federal transportation investment in the United States suffers from both a quantity problem and a quality problem.  The quantity problem is much-discussed, and rightfully so: the United States spends less than peer countries, even as U.S. infrastructure costs are far higher. Passenger interest in  new mass transit and […]

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Loans can stabilize transit funding

This piece is part of IFP’s Transit Abundance Playbook, a collection of proposals for reducing American transit construction costs. Summary Most federal support for US transit and rail capital projects comes in the form of discretionary grants, which warp incentives and drive up project costs. By contrast, predictable multi-year funding is the norm in peer […]