Marc Scribner

Transportation policy @ReasonFdn. Covering infrastructure, planes, trains, and automobiles—especially when robots are involved.

[Marc Scribner @marcscribner]

As I outlined in WSJ (https://t.co/Ute0punjgo), this will keep happening until the U.S. adopts the screening model used by most peer countries: TSA as dedicated security regulator and screening devolved to airports.

See @ReasonFdn’s draft TSA Reform Act: https://t.co/8GXQU9iVOZ

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WARNS IT WILL RUN OUT OF MONEY TO PAY TSA WORKERS IN COMING WEEKS

[Marc Scribner @marcscribner]

@mungowitz Cliff Slater wrote a great debunking of this myth that refuses to die: https://t.co/Ij3yaL9lRi

[AEI Tech Policy @AEItech]

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[Reason Foundation @ReasonFdn]

“Congress limiting TSA’s role is the only way to insulate airport security from dysfunctional Washington politics.” — @marcscribner

https://t.co/l9rtUFWRLP

[David Ditch @DavidADitch]

America is an outlier for socialistic aviation policy and the result is worse infrastructure and passenger experience. A rare “be more like Europe” policy opportunity.

[Marc Scribner @marcscribner]

Speaking of paying Cadillac prices for Kia products: our air traffic control system continues to be an embarrassment. Thailand and Malaysia will get remote/digital control towers before the U.S.

[Marc Scribner @marcscribner]

The 2026 @ReasonFdn Annual Aviation Infrastructure Report is out today: https://t.co/snXwxfHOjC

The U.S. is increasingly a global outlier on private investment in and operation of commercial airports.

[Marc Scribner @marcscribner]

Why does the U.S. keep its airports trapped in the political sector? Part of it is we’re probably so rich that we perversely tolerate paying Cadillac prices for Kia products. But bad tax code and IRS rules definitely don’t help. These are straightforward fixes.

[Marc Scribner @marcscribner]

@bendreyfuss The new JFK Terminal 1 is supposed to open later this year. Ground transportation has been a bigger mess in recent years because of all the construction.

[Marc Scribner @marcscribner]

As a response to the 2023 East Palestine derailment, the Railway Safety Act has never made any sense.

Below I explain how each provision of the bill either violates or is unresponsive to the recommendations contained in the NTSB’s final accident report on East Palestine.

[Marc Scribner @marcscribner]

The Railway Safety Act was reintroduced in the Senate yesterday. This bill was supposedly written in response to the 2023 East Palestine derailment, but unfortunately either violates or is unresponsive to NTSB findings and recommendations.

Let’s look at 8 core provisions (🧵):

[Marc Scribner @marcscribner]

My latest in @ReasonFdn’s monthly Aviation Policy News highlights the newly formed Digital Tower Technology Coalition (@DTCintheNAS), which seeks to advance remote/digital air traffic control towers that are increasingly popular outside the U.S.: https://t.co/YAlHYSwrDe

[Dominic Pino @DominicJPino]

"The FAA’s latest plan to get the air traffic control workforce on better footing makes some important advances. But it doesn’t address the ultimate source of America’s ATC dysfunction: a bureaucratic agency that regulates itself."

@PostOpinions
https://t.co/1kAHiVdKAv

[Washington Post Opinions @PostOpinions]

"Repealing it would take a big step toward saving public transit without reaching back into taxpayer wallets," @ReasonFdn's @marcscribner writes in the Red Tape newsletter. https://t.co/VYa2UI0wLz

[Adrian Moore @reasonpolicy]

If you genuinely want to help public transit succeed, this is crucial:

“Section 13(c), the little-known provision of federal transit law jacks up operating costs by locking in 20th-century labor practices and blocking innovation. Repealing the law would save taxpayers from shelling out more money for systems that desperately need reform, not subsidies.” https://t.co/XZVOdqqefj @ReasonFdn @marcscribner

[Marc Scribner @marcscribner]

I’m in @PostOpinions discussing how federal transit labor protections are a barrier to better public transit in the U.S. https://t.co/dVngDwPA7O

[Marc Scribner @marcscribner]

Shifting transit financial support from users to appropriated government subsidies increases risk and has real costs, such as those that manifest in the bond market.

[Washington Post Opinions @PostOpinions]

In Washington D.C., taxpayers who don’t take the train or bus are increasingly subsidizing those who do, and it’s not sustainable. @DominicJPino explains why.

🔗 Read more: https://t.co/XnaPxOFX7m

[Marc Scribner @marcscribner]

@binarybits @Abi0lvera Streetcars aren’t a great analogy because they ran on schedules and fixed routes. Better are the jitneys that the streetcar industry lobbied cities to outlaw. (Although back then, these modes were mainly used by the middle class; the poor couldn’t afford the fares and walked.)

[Marc Scribner @marcscribner]

@Oriana0214 @SamOgozalek It looks like we may be only half a decade behind Nav Canada, which deployed Digital Twin-Sector Performance Optimizer nationwide last year. That’s very good by FAA standards.

[Adrian Moore @reasonpolicy]

When California’s high speed rail project was approved they said it would cost ~$30billion, @ReasonFdn estimated closer to $80bn.

When voters approved a $10bn bond to help fund in they said the project would cost $45bn, @ReasonFdn estimated closer $100bn,

Now the state says it will cost between $126bn and $232bn!! When will people give up on this unbelievable boondogle?

https://t.co/n5O8cgmktm

[Reason Foundation @ReasonFdn]

"Southern Californians’ dreams of jumping in a flying car to bypass the region’s massive traffic delays may be getting closer." — @marcscribner

[Marc Scribner @marcscribner]

This was a fun discussion.

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