Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

Rep. DeFazio’s Amendment Required to Be Withdrawn

By Sarah Goodyear | Jan 26, 2009 | 6 Comments

This news came in late in the day from Transportation from America: We received word this afternoon that Rep. DeFazio’s amendment that would have provided $2 billion in assistance to transit agencies was required to be withdrawn. We’ll post more as we learn it, but had something to do with parliamentary issues. If you called […]

Stimulus Fight Heats Up in Senate and House

By Ben Fried | Jan 26, 2009 | 4 Comments

On Friday, the Senate Appropriations Committee released its version of an economic recovery package [PDF]. The major line items for transportation don’t differ much from the draft now circulating in the House: $27 billion for formula highway investments. $8.4 billion for formula investments in public transportation. $5.5 billion for competitive grants to state and local […]

Quick Hits From Last Week’s House Transpo Committee Hearing

By Ben Fried | Jan 26, 2009 | No Comments

Carole Brown of the CTA testifies last week. Last week the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held its first hearing on the draft stimulus bill. In a welcome development, several committee members called for restoring funds for transit and rail — including transit operations. Carole Brown of the Chicago Transit Authority urged the committee to […]

Hire a Construction Worker, Fire a Bus Driver?

By John Kaehny | Jan 23, 2009 | 25 Comments

Green-collar jobs are on the line in Barack Obama’s adopted hometown. Photo of CTA bus driver: goatopolis/Flickr It’s stimulus package logic: Lay off a bus driver now and hire a construction worker in a couple of months or a year. Congress and purported urbanist Barack Obama are fiddling with a 1950s-era stimulus package while America’s […]

Congress Sending Wrong Signals to State DOTs in Stimulus Draft

By Ben Fried | Jan 22, 2009 | 11 Comments

Gary Toth is director of Project for Public Spaces’ transportation program and an influential voice for transportation as a tool for making communities more livable. In this piece he tells us how state DOTs are taking cues from Washington as the stimulus bill takes shape. It’s going to be more of the same unless Congress […]

Wiki Wednesday: Transit and the Stimulus

By Ben Fried | Jan 21, 2009 | 6 Comments

Post-stimulus, will this analogy still seem fitting? Today we’ve got a work in progress started by Livable Streets member Adina Levin, who’s tracking the status of transit funding in the stimulus bill. The entry’s a little skeletal at the moment, but once it fills out, this should be one of the more significant additions to […]

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