Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Funding

Republicans Line Up to Oppose Obama’s Transportation Proposal

By Adam Voiland | Sep 8, 2010 | No Comments

The critical multi-year transportation bill, which lawmakers have sidelined since last summer as they’ve quarreled about how to pay for it, looks to be back on the agenda after President Obama’s pugnacious Labor Day speech, in which he called on Congress to ramp up investment in transportation. The broad outline of Obama’s plan calls for […]

Report: Investing in Transit Could Create 180,000 Jobs, for Free

By Noah Kazis | Sep 3, 2010 | 8 Comments

Between calls for renewed stimulus on the one hand and for deficit reduction on the other, Washington, D.C. is stuck. A new report by the Transportation Equity Network, however, shows one easy way out of that political stalemate: shifting our transportation spending to transit. According to the report, written by University of Missouri-St. Louis researchers […]

What Should Replace the Sheridan? TIGER II Could Fund an Official Answer

By Noah Kazis | Aug 30, 2010 | 2 Comments

A city-endorsed plan for the site of the Sheridan Expressway could help replace that highway with housing, jobs, and parks. NYC DOT just applied for federal funding for such a study. Image: Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance Thirteen projects in the New York City region are up for consideration to receive funding from the U.S. […]

Street Safety Projects Threatened as States Give Transpo $ Back to Feds

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 18, 2010 | No Comments

It’s payback time again for state DOTs. The fine print on the jobs bill Congress just passed includes a $2.2 billion rescission from state transportation funding, and projects to make biking and walking safer are especially at risk of losing out. State DOTs have to return funding to the feds, and programs to improve biking […]

Federal Bike-Ped Funding Sets New High, With Much More Room to Grow

By Ben Fried | Jun 17, 2010 | 7 Comments

Graph: FHWA [PDF] Federal funding for pedestrian and bicycle projects reached a new high last year, according to a report released yesterday by the Federal Highway Administration. In terms of dollars, federal investment in walking and biking more than doubled compared to the previous high, set in 2007, thanks largely to an infusion of $400 […]

Federal Transit Aid Bill Could Prevent MTA Service Cuts

By Ben Fried | May 25, 2010 | No Comments

The $2 billion transit operating aid bill unveiled by Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd today could set the stage to stave off major MTA service cuts slated to take effect next month. Photo: cyclosity/Flickr If the bill becomes law and Congress appropriates the full $2 billion, about $275 million in operating aid would be distributed to […]

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