Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Robert Puentes

Brookings: Transit Access to Jobs Is the Missing Link

By Tanya Snyder | May 13, 2011 | No Comments

If you’re a middle-income person living in the Philadelphia metro area, there’s an 85 percent chance you live within three-quarters of a mile of a transit stop, and you probably have to wait about 12 minutes for a bus or train. But if you’re looking for work, beware: only 20 percent of the jobs in […]

Don’t Waste the Next Two Years: A Blueprint for Reform Under GOP Control

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 16, 2010 | No Comments

So longtime chair James Oberstar is gone from the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and the Republicans in charge now are unlikely to take up a transportation bill as expansive as the one he proposed last year. That doesn’t mean transportation advocates should take the next two years off. In “Moving Past Gridlock: A Proposal […]

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 […]

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 […]

Want a Green Recovery? Stimulate Green Transportation

By Ben Fried | Dec 19, 2008 | 4 Comments

Rather not waste billions on stuff like this? Call your rep. Photo: dherrera_96/Flickr. The massive federal stimulus package — expected to direct hundreds of billions to infrastructure projects over the next two years — enters a critical phase this weekend as congressional leaders and the Obama team hammer out the bulk of the bill. For […]