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Senate Set to Confirm LaHood as Transportation Secretary

By Ben Fried | Jan 21, 2009 | 1 Comment

Ray LaHood handles some softballs at his nomination hearing. Looks like Ray LaHood will sail toward an easy confirmation in the Senate. Members of the Transportation Committee were congratulating him before he opened his mouth at this afternoon’s nomination hearing, which just adjourned. Here are some bullet points: The livable communities plank in Obama’s campaign […]

Did Team Obama Gut Transit Funds From the Stimulus Package?

By Brad Aaron | Jan 21, 2009 | 10 Comments

Reporting on last week’s stimulus letdown — when a proposal by US Rep. James Oberstar’s Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for $17 billion in mass transit spending was slashed by the Appropriations Committee, while $30 billion in proposed allocations for roads and bridges remained the same — Grist got word that the then-incoming Obama administration may […]

Stimulus Draft, the Day After

By Ben Fried | Jan 16, 2009 | 5 Comments

For everyone hoping that an $825 billion stimulus package might advance a visionary national agenda for sustainable transportation, yesterday’s release of a draft economic recovery bill didn’t deliver the goods. Nor did it include some pretty easy lifts, like the $1.7 billion for transit operations that the House approved in an earlier bill last summer. […]

Dems Release Stimulus Draft: $30B for Highways, $10B for Transit

By Ben Fried | Jan 15, 2009 | 9 Comments

Via Greater Greater Washington, the Huffington Post is reporting that House Democrats have released a draft summary of an economic stimulus bill, and at first blush there’s little for green transportation advocates to cheer. $30 billion is slated for highways, $10 billion for transit — a marginal improvement over the longstanding 80/20 split in federal […]

New York City Wins the 2009 Sustainable Transport Award

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 13, 2009 | 9 Comments

Madison Square: Before and After. Take a moment to appreciate how far we’ve come in the last few years. New York City is being honored tonight in Washington D.C. as the first U.S. city to win the ITDP Sustainable Transport Award. Here is an excerpt from the press release: New York City has demonstrated that […]

$2 Billion for Bicycling in Stimulus Package?

By Ben Fried | Jan 13, 2009 | 10 Comments

Earl Blumenauer. Photo: New York Times The most tantalizing tidbit in today’s Times profile of Earl Blumenauer comes from fellow cycling Congressman James Oberstar: With an eye on the potential stimulus package, cycling advocates "have compiled a list of $2 billion of projects that can be under construction in 90 days," Mr. Oberstar said, adding […]

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