Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Funding

House GOP Moves to Decimate Dedicated Transit Funding

By Ben Goldman | Feb 2, 2012 | No Comments

In a move that should dispel any remaining thoughts that the House transportation bill [PDF] will ever be signed into law, the Ways and Means Committee announced today that they will try to forbid gas tax revenue from funding transit. The Ways & Means bill [PDF] would funnel all gas tax revenue toward road programs, […]

Amendment to Restore Bike/Ped Programs in House Transpo Bill Fails

By Ben Goldman | Feb 2, 2012 | No Comments

An amendment that would restore the popular Safe Routes to School and Transportation Enhancements programs to the House GOP’s transportation bill has just been defeated in the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee by a vote of 29-27. Supporters of safer biking and walking sent thousands of messages to Congress supporting this amendment in the short time […]

Bike-Ped Traffic, Funding, and Fatalities All Inch Upward

By Ben Goldman | Jan 23, 2012 | No Comments

One day before President Obama’s State of the Union Address, the Alliance for Biking and Walking has released its 2012 Benchmarking Report. Once again, the report indicates, nonmotorized transportation is getting shortchanged by federal funders, while pedestrians and cyclists make up a disproportionately large share of all traffic fatalities. The Alliance looks at all 50 […]

Ron Paul: Stop Subsidizing Highways, Let “Transits” Flourish

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 5, 2012 | No Comments

Before the Iowa caucuses, we wrote briefly about the candidates’ positions on transportation, but we’d missed this tidbit. (Thanks to an anonymous reader for bringing it to our attention.) In this video from 2009, Ron Paul responds to a supporter’s angst about light rail – he wants to oppose anything that was built with government […]

Senate’s Changes to TIFIA Could Mean More Toll Roads, Less Transit

By Ben Goldman | Dec 21, 2011 | No Comments

When the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee unanimously passed a two-year transportation reauthorization bill last month, it quickly became clear that bipartisan support was coming at a price. First, we learned that the Transportation Enhancements bike/ped programs would lose their dedicated funding. Now, we learn that Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loans […]

Biking and Walking Score Big in TIGER III

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 20, 2011 | No Comments

In the third round of TIGER funding, the Obama administration has continued to demonstrate a strong commitment to bike and pedestrian projects. Of the 46 projects chosen for funding, 22 incorporate some aspect of bike and pedestrian accessibility, and nine of them make cyclists or pedestrians the primary beneficiary, said Kartik Sribarra of the Rails-to-Trails […]

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