Send transportation money to the states to spend as they choose
What the document says“it would be more efficient for the U.S. Congress to send transportation grants to each of the 50 states and allow each state to purchase the transportation services that it thinks are best.”
The chapter frames this as conditional on funding remaining federal at all, and says the approach would let states prioritize different kinds of transportation, giving states that rely more on cars as its example.
What the document actually says“it would be more efficient for the U.S. Congress to send transportation grants to each of the 50 states and allow each state to purchase the transportation services that it thinks are best.”
It would work better to send the money to each state. Each state could then buy what it needs.
Some states need roads most. Others need buses or trains. The book says each state should choose. Washington would just send the money.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing indexed comes close. No indexed document changes how transportation money reaches the states or lets a state choose which transportation services to buy with it, and the change would take an act of Congress. The nearest candidate is a docket, State of California v. United States Department of Transportation, and the litigation record here carries docket details rather than the text of any ruling. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.