Baruch Feigenbaum
Assistant Director, Transportation Policy, Reason Foundation
Baruch Feigenbaum is assistant director of transportation policy at Reason Foundation a non-profit think tank advancing free minds and free markets.
Feigenbaum has a diverse background researching and implementing transportation issues including revenue and finance, public-private partnerships, highways, transit, high-speed rail, ports, intelligent transportation systems, land use, and local policymaking.
Feigenbaum is involved with various transportation organizations. He is a member of the Transportation Research Board Bus Transit Systems and Intelligent Transportation Systems Committees. He is Vice President of Programming for the Transportation and Research Forum Washington Chapter, a reviewer for the Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA) and a contributor to Planetizen. He has appeared on NBC Nightly News and CNBC. His work has been featured in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal.
Prior to joining Reason, Feigenbaum handled transportation issues on Capitol Hill for Representative Lynn Westmoreland. He earned his Master's degree in Transportation Planning with a focus in Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Trump’s infrastructure plan is good and bad news for California’s tired, out-of-shape highways
If the plan moves ahead and major parts of the Trump administration’s plan are passed into law, it will shift a lot of the burden for funding infrastructure onto state and local governments.
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Trump’s Infrastructure Plan is Good and Bad News for California’s Tired, Out-of-Shape Highways
California will need to seriously dedicate itself to maximizing taxpayers’ dollars and prioritizing transportation projects.
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Georgia Shouldn’t Rush Transit Legislation
Getting the transit plan right is more important than rushing it.
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Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Has Several Good Elements
Shifting federal transportation policy in some ways that would give states more freedom to operate their roadway systems.
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Ranking the Best, Worst, Safest, and Most Expensive State Highway Systems — The 23rd Annual Highway Report
Ranking each state's highway system in 11 categories, including highway spending, pavement and bridge conditions, traffic congestion, and fatality rates.
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How Trump’s transportation plan might help Southern California
Trump still hasn’t provided substantive details on where the funding would come from, but there are significant federal policy changes between the status quo and what Trump has sketched out.
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Blame Poor Management for Atlanta Airport’s Inability to Handle Adversity
One of the busiest airports in the world was embarrassed by a power outage and struggles to handle two inches of snow.
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The Bay Area Needs Another Bridge
Seventy-four percent of Bay Area voters said they were willing to pay higher bridge tolls if the tolls funded large-scale projects aimed at improving traffic.
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Fixing Transit Service In and Around the New York City Suburbs
The subway is in crisis and leaders need to look at transit options that could provide immediate choices to workers in the region.