Plus: Gersh Kuntzman takes a look at a new report that throws cold water on the gains won from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021. President Joe Biden said that the bill would represent “the most significant investment in passenger rail in the past 50 years and in public transit ever” … but instead that increase in spending is concentrated among highway projects.
The Trump administration’s new blueprint for improving the nation’s poor road-safety record ignores well-established safety measures and leaves vulnerable road users completely out of the picture — a roadmap that advocates said would not change the ongoing road death crisis that is increasingly unique to the United States.