Baruch Feigenbaum
Senior Managing Director, Transportation Policy, Reason Foundation
Baruch Feigenbaum is senior managing director of transportation policy at Reason Foundation.
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. Prior to joining Reason, Feigenbaum handled transportation issues on Capitol Hill for Rep. Lynn Westmoreland.
Feigenbaum 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, The Wall Street Journal and numerous other publications.
Feigenbaum earned his master's degree in Transportation Planning with a focus in engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Another congressional hearing, but few improvements at WMATA
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's board is fundamentally flawed.
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Arizona’s kids need expanded transportation options to get to the schools of their choice
Some of Arizona’s highest-quality schools are unable to offer student transportation thanks to outdated state laws.
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Pittsburgh bridge collapse highlights how governments put off infrastructure repairs and maintenance
Consistently deferring repairs and maintenance can lead to disaster.
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RAISE transportation grants go to non-transportation projects in committee members’ congressional districts
Of the 90 projects funded with Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity grants in 2021, only nine projects (10%) were national in nature.
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Ranking how each state’s transportation funding system aligns with the users-pay/users-benefit principle
With direct users-pay funding sources, those who use the highways are the people paying for them.
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Annual Highway Report: Ranking each state’s highway conditions and cost-effectiveness
The Annual Highway Report examines every state's pavement and bridge conditions, traffic fatalities, congestion delays, spending per mile, administrative costs, and more.
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Youngkin should prioritize modernizing Virginia’s transportation funding sources
Virginia’s highway system is lagging behind neighboring Atlantic states.
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Testimony: Without tolling, PennDOT does not have the ability to rebuild bridges
PennDOT should follow value-added tolling principles to rebuild the state's infrastructure.
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Testimony: Comments on the supplemental draft environmental impact statement for the Maryland I-495 and I-270 managed lane project
Due to a change in project scope, MDOT and FHWA needed to provide a Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the I-270 and I-495 Managed Lanes Project.
