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Joshua Schank President and CEO Eno Center for Transportation

Congress: Gridlocking Towards Glory or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love General Fund Revenues. Joshua Schank President and CEO Eno Center for Transportation. Presentation Outline . Policy Outlook Current Funding Outlook Potential Future Options What can be done about it?.

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Joshua Schank President and CEO Eno Center for Transportation

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  1. Congress: Gridlocking Towards GloryorHow I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love General Fund Revenues Joshua Schank President and CEO Eno Center for Transportation

  2. Presentation Outline • Policy Outlook • Current Funding Outlook • Potential Future Options • What can be done about it?

  3. Policy Outlook

  4. Columbia and the ADA

  5. Pre-MAP 21 System

  6. Spending Under SAFETEA-LU

  7. End of an Era?

  8. Congress Taking What They Can

  9. Current Funding Outlook

  10. Jonah and the Clock

  11. No Progress on Long-Term Funding Source: AASHTO

  12. Potential Future Options

  13. Max’s Solution Max’s Solution

  14. Under Consideration

  15. Funding Tradeoffs

  16. What can be done about it?

  17. Congress: Ready to Go

  18. Conclusions • Current system fails to provide long-term sustainable funding • There is no evidence that Congress can tackle this problem by increasing user fees • Congress’ default position has already improved things • A conscious move to general funds could effectively improve performance, reduce modal siloes, and provide sustainable funding

  19. Jschank@enotrans.org (202) 879-4711www.enotrans.org

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