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Transportation policy @ReasonFdn. Covering infrastructure, planes, trains, and automobiles—especially when robots are involved.

Washington, DC Katılım Ocak 2009
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JUST RELEASED: @ReasonFdn's recommendations for the federal surface transportation reauthorization bill due in 2026: reason.org/testimony/reco… We offer 9⃣ reforms, each accompanied by suggested legislative text or reform principles. A🧵, with summaries and links to each. 1/10
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@jadler1969 The editorial and Sen. Lee’s Abolish TSA Act miss what’s wrong with the Screening Partnership Program and why it isn’t popular with airports. We instead need to let airports contract directly with screening providers, as the EU and others do. The Post got it right:
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Spot on, @PostOpinions: TSA’s Screening Partnership Program can avoid (or at least delay) airport security chaos from government shutdowns. But its potential is limited by poor design. We need direct airport contracting and an independent revenue stream. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

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As an aside, it’s telling that public concern about TSA wait times focuses on the inconvenience it causes travelers. Concentrating a bunch of people outside the sterile area of an airport is a huge security problem. It shows how people don’t take airport security seriously.
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Spot on, @PostOpinions: TSA’s Screening Partnership Program can avoid (or at least delay) airport security chaos from government shutdowns. But its potential is limited by poor design. We need direct airport contracting and an independent revenue stream. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

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Spot on, @PostOpinions: TSA’s Screening Partnership Program can avoid (or at least delay) airport security chaos from government shutdowns. But its potential is limited by poor design. We need direct airport contracting and an independent revenue stream. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…
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The Bay Area Rapid Transit system's labor costs rose by $150 million between 2019 and 2024. It used all that extra money to complete 73 million fewer trips. @PostOpinions looks at the financial death spiral of public transit in the Bay Area. 🧵
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We are sad to report that Senior Editor Brian Doherty has died. Brian wrote six books, including "Radicals for Capitalism," a seminal history of the modern American libertarian movement. He had an inspiring commitment to covering the ways free people choose to live their lives, and he will be missed. A full obituary will appear soon at reason.com.
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My latest @ReasonFdn has some ideas on how Congress could improve upon its existing mileage-based use fee grant program to ensure technical assistance actually flows to worthy projects in the states.
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And this is principally due to technical and production factors, not regulatory or cultural ones.
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To be sure, Congress can play a positive role in advancing rail safety, but they need to think clearly about it.
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8. Expanding the existing Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness grants to allow fire departments to purchase the personal protective gear that keeps them safe (Sec. 203)
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The Railway Safety Act was reintroduced in the Senate yesterday. This bill was supposedly written in response to the 2023 East Palestine derailment, but unfortunately either violates or is unresponsive to NTSB findings and recommendations. Let’s look at 8 core provisions (🧵):
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