Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Funding

What the Feds Giveth, the States Taketh Away — From Bike/Ped Programs

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 20, 2011 | No Comments

It’s rescission time again, folks. That Washington lingo for “gimme gimme.” We had a name for people who “rescinded” gifts back in elementary school but it’s ethnically insensitive so I won’t say it. Suffice it to say, if little kids call you a name for doing something, it’s probably not a super popular thing to […]

$100 Million for HUD Sustainability Program Survives in This Year’s Budget

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 18, 2011 | No Comments

With multiple versions of two years’ worth of federal budgets flying around, some details are still emerging about what’s in and what’s out. At the end of last week we heard that the FY2011 budget, which has been sent to the president for his signature, includes $100 million for the Partnership for Sustainable Communities. According […]

Senate Introduces a Narrower Bill for Wider Sidewalks

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 15, 2011 | No Comments

Like everyone else, Safe Routes to School advocates are scaling back. Last year, a bill introduced in the Senate asked for $600 million to enhance pedestrian and bike safety near schools. “We were working in a pretty different environment,” said Margo Pedroso, deputy director of the Safe Routes to School National Partnership. “Everybody was talking […]

High-Speed Rail Funds Get Slashed in Detailed Budget Plan

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 12, 2011 | No Comments

Just when we thought transportation had gotten off relatively easy in the shutdown-aversion budget deal: The House Appropriations Committee has released details [PDF] on the budget agreement between the two houses, including more information on the agreed-to $38.5 billion in cuts. Where we’d heard before that high-speed rail was getting a $1.5 billion haircut, down […]

You Can Open Your Eyes Now: Budget Deal Spares Transpo the Worst

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 11, 2011 | No Comments

It’s Monday morning, and the government is open for business. In a last-minute agreement just an hour before the current budget extension was to expire Friday night, Democrats and Republicans avoided the nuclear option of a government shutdown. They cut $38.5 billion from the 2010 budget; $78.5 billion from President Obama’s 2011 budget proposal. Some […]

Government Shutdown Would Be a Punch in the Gut to Transit Agencies

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 8, 2011 | No Comments

A powwow between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, President Obama, and House Speaker John Boehner last night failed to yield a compromise that would put a budget in place before the government shuts down at midnight tonight. The failure of yet another attempt to negotiate makes a government shutdown all but inevitable. Just a month […]

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