Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Stimulus

Tell Your Senator to Support Transit and Green Jobs, Not Highways

By Ben Fried | Feb 3, 2009 | 1 Comment

Update: Hold those phone calls, folks. Schumer has co-sponsored the Murray/Feinstein amendment, making it highly unlikely that he will offer his own, superior amendment. There are more amendments in the wings — supported by Senate Republicans and some surprising Democrats — that would give highway builders even greater leeway to build dirty, traffic-generating boondoggles. We’ll […]

Stimulus + Mass Transit = Opportunity

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 3, 2009 | 3 Comments

I generally avoid cable news like the plague but I’ve been tuning in lately hoping to find some interesting discussion of the federal stimulus bill. Despite my low expectations of the medium I’ve been amazed by the inanity, the lack of substance and the incredible amount of Republican demagoguery being allowed to make it onto […]