A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to include certain ridership forecasting methods in determinations of whether a project under the fixed guideway capital investment grants program is justified, and for other purposes.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
2026-07-23
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Committee Activity
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- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and TransportationReferred To · 2026-07-23
Plain-English Summary
The federal government would change how it decides whether to fund major public transportation projects like subway or light rail systems by allowing more flexible methods to predict how many people will actually use them. Currently, the government uses strict forecasting rules that sometimes overestimate ridership, which can lead to rejecting projects that might actually work; this bill would let transportation planners use additional prediction methods to make better decisions about which projects deserve federal funding. This affects cities and transit agencies that want to build new public transportation systems and the communities that depend on them.
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