Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Transportation Bill

Obama to Sign Transpo Bill Today at 4:55

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 6, 2012 | No Comments

The last thing the president will do during this hot, lazy recess week is to sign the transportation bill. He’ll be surrounded by construction workers, as this bill was always as much about jobs as it was about setting policy, and by college students, since the bill was combined with a provision keeping student loan […]

Buck Up, Reformers: Despite the Hard Knocks, This Bill Is a Step Forward

By David Burwell | Jul 5, 2012 | No Comments

David Burwell is the director of the Energy and Climate Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was also co-founder and CEO of the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, and a founding co-chair and president of the Surface Transportation Policy Project, a national transportation policy reform coalition. There is much despair in the transportation reform community about […]

A New Bill Passes, But America’s Transpo Policy Stays Stuck in 20th Century

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 29, 2012 | No Comments

The House of Representatives approved the transportation bill conference report this afternoon by a vote of 373 to 52. This is a bill that’s been called “a death blow to mass transit” by the Amalgamated Transit Union, “a step backwards for America’s transportation system” by the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, “a retreat from the goals of sustainability and […]

Transpo Bill Preserves Transit Funding, Wastes Opportunities For Progress

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 28, 2012 | No Comments

In H.R.7 — the transpo bill so backwards even the House couldn’t pass it — the roads-only crowd threw transit riders under the bus, as it were, eliminating dedicated funding for transit, which was left to fend for itself off scraps from the general fund. The best thing one can say about the bill issued by […]

Transpo Bill Cuts Bike/Ped Funding, Lets States Spend It on Left-Turn Lanes

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 28, 2012 | No Comments

NOTE: The facts are even worse than they seemed when I wrote this article. States can flex TA money, not just to CMAQ, but to anything they want. See “The Awful Truth About the Transpo Bill’s Bike/Ped Loophole,” for more. In the transportation bill agreed to yesterday by Barbara Boxer, John Mica, and other Congressional […]

Complete Streets Provision Eliminated From Final Transpo Bill

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 28, 2012 | No Comments

Transportation for America, the big-tent coalition for transportation reform, tends to be careful about the statements it puts out. Its folks are diplomatic, since they work with both sides on the Hill and a wide variety of coalition members. Yesterday, as details of the conference report were leaking out, they wanted to read the whole […]

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