Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Funding

How Highway Spending Could Become as Transparent as Bike/Ped Spending

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 11, 2012 | No Comments

“There’s an inverse proportion of the size of a transportation program to the amount of transparency,” says Deron Lovaas of the Natural Resources Defense Council. While anyone can easily find in granular detail anything they would ever want to know about where bike/ped money goes, and they can get a pretty good idea of what’s going […]

MAP-21 Puts the Squeeze on Bridge Repair and Bikes

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 26, 2012 | No Comments

One of the most popular elements of the new transportation authorization is its consolidation or elimination of 60 federal programs. But this cleanup is not without its casualties. One of those casualties is the off-system bridge program. And another one, indirectly, is funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects. As you can see, the Highway Bridge […]

Transportation Investments and America’s Quality-of-Life Gap

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 20, 2012 | No Comments

For a while it didn’t seem certain, but after a critical vote earlier this month, it looks like California’s on track to build high-speed rail. And, I’ll be the first to admit, California — with two large, global metros just a few hundred miles apart — is a great place for it. Despite some reservations […]

Under New Bill, America’s Transpo Loan Program Ignores National Goals

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 3, 2012 | No Comments

In the highly polarized and antagonistic transportation bill negotiations, dragged out over the course of almost a year, there was one thing that Democrats and Republicans could agree on: vastly expanding the TIFIA loan program. The Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) program has, since 1998, provided federal credit assistance at favorable interest rates […]

House Attack on Safe Streets Makes Transpo Bill Ever More Elusive

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 12, 2012 | No Comments

We reported last week that the House had proposed allowing states to “opt out” of funding bicycle and pedestrian safety improvements in its counter-offer to the Senate during transportation bill negotiations. The House GOP essentially wants to reject the Cardin-Cochran amendment, which gave local governments control over half the “Additional Activities” funding set aside for […]

House GOP Threatens to Wipe Out Local Control Over Bike/Ped Funding

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 8, 2012 | No Comments

The House GOP couldn’t pass a transportation bill of their own, so now they want to undo one of the major bi-partisan achievements in the Senate transportation bill. As part of its counter-offer to the Senate in conference committee negotiations over the transportation bill, the House appears to be proposing the elimination of the Cardin-Cochran […]

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