The FTA says a Covid-era weekly reporting rule “no longer offers sufficient value.”
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is proposing to end the National Transit Database’s (NTD) Weekly Reference (WE-20) reporting requirement, saying that it “no longer offers sufficient value relative to the administrative burden on transit agencies and FTA.”
According to reporting by Zach Williams in Bloomberg Government, transit agencies began submitting weekly reports during the Covid-19 pandemic “to help the Federal Transit Administration better understand the effects of the pandemic on transit ridership.”
Now, the FTA says “Although the WE-20 reporting requirement provided important data as the countryrecovered from the pandemic, it is not required by statute, and after two years of experience with this data collection, FTA has now determined the WE-20 reporting requirement no longer offers sufficient value relative to the administrative burden on transit agencies and is inconsistent with this Administration’s deregulatory priorities.
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