Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Funding

Even the Godfather of Rail~Volution Wouldn’t Raise the Gas Tax Right Now

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 19, 2011 | No Comments

At Rail~Volution yesterday, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) — also known as the godfather of the “rail~volution” — said even he wouldn’t raise the gas tax right now. “We should make some adjustments to a gas tax that hasn’t increased since 1993,” Blumenauer said. “Half the people think the gas tax goes up every year.” He […]

Carnahan and LaTourette Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Bolster Transit Service

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 13, 2011 | No Comments

It’s a sign of the recession, but also symptomatic of a longstanding restriction on federal transit funding. In Lorain, Ohio and Albany, New York and other cities across the country, rows of brand new buses, paid for with stimulus money, have been laid up in garages. Despite falling revenues, these recession-battered transit agencies might be […]

Republicans Have Their Own Plan to Pay for Infrastructure Jobs: Oil Drilling

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 30, 2011 | No Comments

President Obama has proposed a plan to pay for the American Jobs Act, the $447 billion bill to create 1.9 million jobs, including $50 billion for infrastructure. His “pay-for” plan includes limitations on itemized deductions for the wealthy and the elimination of some tax loopholes for oil and gas companies. Republicans have a different idea, […]

Will Obama’s Transportation Jobs Plan Avoid Funding Sprawl?

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 28, 2011 | No Comments

USDOT has made public the breakdown of President Obama’s $50 billion plan to create jobs through transportation infrastructure investment. The administration says: “It will put people to work upgrading 150,000 miles of road, laying/maintaining 4,000 miles of train tracks, restoring 150 miles of runways, and putting in place a next-generation air-traffic control system that will […]

Would President Romney Build Roads or Rail?

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 27, 2011 | No Comments

All eyes are on Texas Gov. Rick Perry these days, the faraway frontrunner in the Republican race. But as the primary goes on (and on and on) more Republicans might take note of the fact that in a matchup with President Obama, only one candidate stands a chance of winning: former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. […]

Mica, GOP Leadership Looking to Raise Transportation Spending Levels in Bill

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 23, 2011 | No Comments

According to yet another great report from Jeff Davis at Transportation Weekly, House Republican leadership has given House Transportation Committee Chair John Mica permission to seek additional revenues to fund the transportation reauthorization at levels $15 billion higher than initially proposed. One Republican source, quoted in Transportation Weekly, said that given the persistently high unemployment […]

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