Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Funding

Why Reformers Should Care How We Pay for Transportation

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 6, 2010 | No Comments

TIFIAs and TIGERs and NIBs — oh my! The alphabet soup of infrastructure funding mechanisms can be alienating even to committed transportation advocates. But with the power of the gas tax diminishing and elected officials refusing to raise it, other financing options are taking on increasing importance. If you’re interested in reforming our transportation system […]

Earmark Ban Goes Down to Defeat in the Senate

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 30, 2010 | No Comments

The Senate just voted down the Republican proposal to ban earmarks. The proposed ban was met with profound ambivalence in the transportation community. Some, like Rob Sadowsky, Executive Director of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, worried that a ban would remove a primary funding mechanism for bike-ped projects. The day after the election, Sadowsky told BikePortland, […]

GOP Wants to Bring Transpo Policy Back to the 1950s

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 19, 2010 | No Comments

A top Republican transportation staffer gave some clues yesterday about the GOP’s plan to drastically restructure national transportation policy and reverse many reforms of the past 20 years. In an off-the-record luncheon with the Road Gang, a sort of “fraternity” of Washington highway executives, Jim Tymon gave the view from his seat as Republican staff […]

Bachmann: It’s Not an Earmark If It’s for Highways and Bridges

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 18, 2010 | No Comments

The first phase of the lame duck ends today. Has Congress done the heavy lifting of finding consensus on extending tax cuts, or unemployment benefits, or Medicare physician payments, or the surface transportation authorization, or the federal budget? No. But they named a few post offices. And they re-elected their same leaders to keep on […]

Eliminate Waste or Kill Good Projects? Earmark Ban Could Cut Both Ways

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 4, 2010 | No Comments

As the election news sunk in yesterday, President Obama sought common ground with the incoming Republican leadership. His olive branch: earmarks. In a nod to the likely new House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor (R-VA), Obama singled out an earmark ban as an area of agreement for the two parties. Cantor has called earmarks “the poster […]

Bike-Ped Funding Dips as Stimulus Spending Slows

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 1, 2010 | No Comments

Via the League of American Bicyclists, new information is out about how much the feds are spending on bike-ped projects. While federal funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects is down a bit from last year’s all-time high, it still comes in at more than a billion dollars. A third of the money is from the […]

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