Special Briefing on Transportation Opportunities & Challenges in the New Federalism

Join us as our expert panel discusses the implications for America's transportation network in the developing realignment of trillions of dollars in federal fiscal support for states and localities. This realignment presents great opportunities as well as vexing challenges for transportation planners and developers. Moves to accelerate project delivery, including handing responsibility for environmental reviews of highway construction to states, may help cut costs. At the same time, Administration moves to repeal the entire federal climate regulatory framework under the Clean Air Act may complicate efforts to improve the ability of the nation's transportation systems to withstand the stresses of increasingly severe weather events. A bitterly divided Congress, meanwhile, faces a September 30 deadline to reauthorize $1.2 trillion in federal funding for highways, transit, safety, and railroads. Featuring:

• Eryn Hurley, Chief Government Affairs Officer, National Association of Counties
• Baye Larsen, Vice President/Senior Credit Officer, Moody's
• Robert Poole, Director of Transportation Policy and Searle Freedom Trust Transportation Fellow, Reason Foundation
• Naomi Renek, former Senior Advisor, NY MTA 
  
   

Moderated by William Glasgall, Volcker Alliance Public Finance Adviser and Penn IUR Fellow, and Leslie Richards, Founder and Director of the Transportation Initiative at Penn (TRIP) and Weitzman School Professor of Practice of City & Regional Planning, this briefing is the 67th in a series of sixty-minute online conversations featuring experts from the national research networks of the Volcker Alliance and Penn IUR, along with other leading academics, economists, and federal, state, and local leaders. 

Special Briefings are made possible by funding from The Travelers Institute, the Volcker Alliance, and members of the Penn IUR Advisory Board. Recordings of the entire Special Briefings series are available on the Volcker Alliance or Penn IUR websites. 

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