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Shirley Ybarra
Shirley Ybarra
Senior Transportation Policy Analyst
Senior Transportation Policy Analyst
Reason Foundation
shirley.ybarra@reason.org
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Shirley Ybarra is a senior transportation policy analyst at Reason Foundation, a nonprofit think tank advancing free minds and free markets.
Ms. Ybarra served as Secretary of Transportation for the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1998 to 2002, overseeing a budget of $3.2 billion and a staff of 13,000 people. Between 1994 and 1998, Ybarra was Virginia's Deputy Secretary of Transportation.
Ybarra also served as senior policy advisor and special assistant for policy for U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole from 1983 to 1987. In that role, Ybarra managed the transfer and privatization of Dulles and National Airports to the Washington Metropolitan Airport Authority.
Ybarra authored Virginia's Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995, considered the model public-private partnership legislation in the United States.
In 2001, Ybarra received the American Road and Transportation Builders Association's "Public-Private Ventures Entrepreneur of the Year Award" for her leadership in designing innovative infrastructure financing.
She holds a Master's degree in Economics and a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
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- Panama Canal Expansion and Port Privatization
Shirley Ybarra
August 9, 2009, 2:37pm - How States and Territories Fund Transportation: A New Report
Shirley Ybarra
July 31, 2009, 12:10pm - A Small Breather for the Highway Trust Fund
Shirley Ybarra
July 30, 2009, 7:39pm - Virginia Ports Receive Competitive Public-Private Partnership Bids
Shirley Ybarra
July 28, 2009, 8:21am - Good News for Taxpayers: Lower Than Expected Bids Continue for Stimulus Projects
Shirley Ybarra
July 22, 2009, 11:29am - Another Public-Private Partnership Project Moving Forward in Virginia
Shirley Ybarra
July 20, 2009, 4:22pm - Maryland Port Moves Forward on Public-Private Solicitation
Shirley Ybarra
July 13, 2009, 3:45pm - Freedom in 50 States: A New Study
Shirley Ybarra
July 3, 2009, 7:53am - Federal Highways Report on HOT Lanes
Shirley Ybarra
July 1, 2009, 11:14am - Performance-Based Maintenance Contracting: Another Tool
Shirley Ybarra
June 30, 2009, 11:28am - More on High-Speed Rail
Shirley Ybarra
June 28, 2009, 11:01am - States Receive Dire Warning on the Highway Trust Fund
Shirley Ybarra
June 25, 2009, 8:05pm - Governors Call for Fixing the Transportation Trust Fund
Shirley Ybarra
June 23, 2009, 11:47am - Chairman Oberstar's Transportation Proposal
Shirley Ybarra
June 18, 2009, 8:23pm - And Let the Games Begin with Transportation Funding
Shirley Ybarra
June 18, 2009, 10:05am - One Big Pothole
Shirley Ybarra
June 15, 2009, 12:59pm - Cutting Costs on the Columbia River Bridge Project Between Wasington and Oregon Should be Easy.....Skip the Light Rail
Shirley Ybarra
May 20, 2009, 11:19pm - Congestion Down in Northern Virgina for Now.....Solution Will be HOT Lanes
Shirley Ybarra
May 20, 2009, 11:00pm - Competition Likely to the Unsolicited Proposal for the Virginia Ports
Shirley Ybarra
May 18, 2009, 11:29am - Jack Kemp: RIP
Shirley Ybarra
May 13, 2009, 2:30am - Public-Private Transportation Project Was Shovel Ready
Shirley Ybarra
May 7, 2009, 5:23pm - Porcari Nominated as Deputy Secretary of US DOT
Shirley Ybarra
April 13, 2009, 4:40pm - States Finding Good Deals on Transportation Projects
Shirley Ybarra
April 8, 2009, 3:03pm - High Gas Prices, Bad Economy Cause Highway Deaths To Drop To 1960s Levels
Shirley Ybarra
April 7, 2009, 10:58am - Private Companies Should Run Virginia's Rest Stops
Shirley Ybarra
April 2, 2009, 4:46pm - FAA Nominee Talks About Air Traffic Challenges Ahead
Shirley Ybarra
March 31, 2009, 8:16pm - States Can Get Good Deals on Infrastructure, Road Projects
Shirley Ybarra
March 31, 2009, 8:01pm - Budget Woes for Transit Systems Despite Ridership Gains
Shirley Ybarra
March 24, 2009, 11:05am - Recession Isn't Preventing Private Sector Interest in Ports
Shirley Ybarra
March 19, 2009, 4:41pm - It Takes 25 Years to Widen a 1.5 Mile Stretch of Road in Virginia
Shirley Ybarra
March 19, 2009, 1:50pm - Highway Trust Fund Is Going Broke, And Fast
Shirley Ybarra
March 16, 2009, 9:29pm - New CBO Report on Congestion Pricing
Shirley Ybarra
March 15, 2009, 2:23pm - Taking the Politics Out of Road Building in North Carolina
Shirley Ybarra
March 12, 2009, 7:07am - Florida's New PPP Project
Shirley Ybarra
March 9, 2009, 8:29am - ZIP Cars
Shirley Ybarra
March 8, 2009, 7:16pm - It's Not New Money
Shirley Ybarra
March 6, 2009, 7:52am - Lee County, Florida Looking at Pragmatic Solutions
Shirley Ybarra
March 6, 2009, 7:17am - Private Investment Upgrades Oakland Port
Shirley Ybarra
March 5, 2009, 10:37am - Thatcher Said It Best
Shirley Ybarra
February 8, 2009, 6:51am - Risking the Future (there is a better solution)
Shirley Ybarra
February 2, 2009, 7:43am - Private Sector comes to Transportation In Alabama
Shirley Ybarra
January 31, 2009, 7:38pm - New Cash, Not New Projects in Stimulus ..The head line says it all
Shirley Ybarra
January 28, 2009, 8:07am - Environmental Issues Slide in Poll of Public's Concern
Shirley Ybarra
January 22, 2009, 9:44am - China Stimulus Package
Shirley Ybarra
January 22, 2009, 8:15am - But Who Will Drive Them? (and who will run the junk yards?)
Shirley Ybarra
January 21, 2009, 6:46pm - Cheering on the City of Chesapeake, Virginia
Shirley Ybarra
December 31, 2008, 8:39pm - And you thought infrastructure stimulus meant Roads and Bridges?
Shirley Ybarra
December 27, 2008, 2:08pm - Will the Stimilus Work?
Shirley Ybarra
December 20, 2008, 4:01am - Missouri Department of Transportation with Another Innovation for Highway Construction
Shirley Ybarra
November 27, 2008, 9:56pm - Oregon Governor MIssing a Part of the Transportation Puzzle
Shirley Ybarra
November 27, 2008, 8:46pm
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