The Maryland Department of Transportation recently announced yet another delay of the Purple Line’s opening to Winter 2027, five years after its initially planned completion in 2022. The 16.2‑mile light rail project, which will connect New Carrollton and Bethesda in Washington, DC’s northern suburbs is also way over budget.

Holman Jenkins discusses problems with the air traffic control (ATC) system today in the Wall Street Journal.

There is an obvious way to implement urgently needed reform.

Amtrak was supposed to become self‐supporting after a transition period, but it has never earned a profit and it consumed more than $50 billion in federal subsidies from 1970 to 2020.

The importance of infrastructure investment to the U.S. economy is widely recognized.

My daughters have gone to college in Pittsburgh and Poughkeepsie, NY. As they will be traveling back and forth to D.C., we have compared transportation options.

Here at Cato we’ve written many times about the record of big infrastructure projects and “megaprojects”:

The recently passed infrastructure bill includes $36 billion for “federal‐​state partnerships for intercity passenger rail grants.”

The only good thing about the infrastructure bill that Congress just passed is that it doesn’t include any money for high‐​speed rail.

Although most of the discussion surrounding current U.S. port and supply chain bottlenecks has focused on the economy and Americans’ holiday shopping plans, some are using the situation to sell the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package now before Congress.