Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Funding

The Auto Industry Wants Your Thanks

By Anne Lutz Fernandez | Apr 24, 2012 | No Comments

Feeling warmer and fuzzier about the auto industry bailout? With the help of the Obama reelection campaign, the industry is convincing more Americans that the $80 billion they forked over to save it were dollars well spent. In the latest Pew poll, the public responded more positively toward the bailout than ever before, with 56 […]

Federal Transpo Policy Entering New Era, Say NYC Officials. Now What?

By Noah Kazis | Apr 5, 2012 | 7 Comments

It’s a new era for federal transportation policy, say the top New York City Department of Transportation officials tracking action on Capitol Hill. We just don’t know what kind of era it’s going to be. “If this was 1996 or 1985 it would be pretty clear where we would go with federal transportation policy, with […]

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From Minnesota to Mississippi, Telling Congress to Save Bike-Ped Programs

By Elizabeth Press and Ben Fried | Mar 27, 2012 | No Comments

For more than 20 years, federal funding for bike and pedestrian safety has enabled American cities and towns to invest in transportation projects that state DOTs would otherwise have overlooked. Thanks to these programs, communities have helped main streets thrive, provided kids with safer routes to school, and made biking an attractive transportation option. The […]

After 30 Years of Federal Support for Transit, Battle Lines are Redrawn

By Ben Goldman | Mar 13, 2012 | No Comments

Add Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff to the list of people saying that it’s premature to declare victory over the House’s attempts to cast transit into the abyss. Rogoff knows a thing or two about transportation bills: He was an aide on the Senate Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee for 20 years, during which time the federal […]

Cardin-Cochran Amendment Incorporated Into Senate Bill

By Ben Goldman | Mar 2, 2012 | No Comments

Majority Leader Harry Reid has incorporated much of the Ben Cardin/Thad Cochran amendment into the so-called “manager’s mark” of the Senate transportation bill. The move means that the amendment’s provisions letting local governments directly access funding from popular bicycle and pedestrian programs will be included in the bill without having to come up for a separate vote. Without […]

Cardin-Cochran Amendment Would Boost Local Control of Bike-Ped Funding

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 14, 2012 | No Comments

We mentioned it briefly last week, but the amendment to the Senate transportation bill from Maryland Democrat Ben Cardin and Mississippi Republican Thad Cochran is a critical one to track. The amendment would give local governments, rather than state DOTs, access to most federal bike-ped funding. The way the Senate transportation bill, MAP-21, is currently […]

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