MoveAmerica Blog

One of the hazards of using terms like ‘fiscal cliff’ and ‘sequester’ is that we become numb to their true meaning.  But if congressional gridlock prevents us from funding our surface transportation systems, we will go over the mobility cliff. I challenge anyone in America to hop on a transit bus or in their car […]

For ordinary, common-sense Americans, the 113th Congress has a lot to prove.  Will our lawmakers finally reject the corrosive politics that values gridlock and inaction over progress, or remain stuck behind those who say any bipartisan agreement for the good of the country is, by definition, a defeat? When it comes to our passenger rail […]

At least 1,500 union workers gathered on Capitol Hill this week and demanded that no cuts be made to Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security as part of across-the-board sequestration cuts scheduled to take effect on March 1.  They stood in the front yard of Congress and asked that the future of America not be jeopardized […]

The U.S. is home to the busiest and safest aviation system in the world and thousands of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees make sure it stays that way every day.   But some in Congress, those who think we should cut our way to prosperity, are prepared to allow sequestration  — across-the-board cuts — to go […]

The clock is ticking toward a March 1 deadline when federal “sequestration” cuts will take effect unless Congress acts.  If the cuts do go through, our economy will take a hit but our National Airspace System (NAS), in particular, will be imperiled.  We can’t let that happen, and there is a way you can help. […]

If I could send a package to the American people, here is what I’d put inside: a long-term plan to fund our nation’s transportation system, creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs, wrapped by a Congress that sees the common sense solutions that already exist to boost our economy.The alternative course some are pursuing, however, […]

Imagine that the government was sitting on a pile of money – billions, actually – that had been collected for a purpose that is critical to maintaining our nation’s standing in the global economy.  Now consider that, if this money were put to the use for which it was collected, it would create middle-class jobs […]

The questions of how to generate more high-paying jobs in America and how to regain our pre-eminence as the world leader of safe and efficient transportation  are ones that shouldn’t be asked on separate tracks. We need a transportation network in this country that is interwoven and properly funded from our waterways to our railways to our […]

A historic figure in politics has announced he will depart from the U.S. Senate after nearly 30 years of service to our entire nation, and 50 years of service to the people of West Virginia in particular. Transportation workers and their unions can’t imagine a Senate without Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV).  They can’t fathom the […]

Late into the evening on Feb. 12, 2009, news reports began flooding the airwaves about a plane crash in a small town in New York that killed all 49 on board.  An investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) into the Colgan Air Flight 3407 disaster later revealed that pilot fatigue likely played an […]