Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Transportation Bill

The Federal Transportation Bill Is a Health Care Bill

By Richard J. Jackson | Mar 3, 2011 | No Comments

Dr. Richard J. Jackson is Professor and Chair of Environmental Health Science in the UCLA School of Public Health. On February 23, Senator Barbara Boxer and Representative John Mica held a congressional hearing here in Los Angeles to discuss the federal transportation bill. The dominant theme of the hearing was expanding and establishing federal financing […]

Mica on the Next Transportation Bill: Size Matters

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 1, 2011 | No Comments

We caught up with Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair John Mica today and asked him about the reauthorization of the federal transportation bill. Streetsblog: First, I wanted to ask you what your thoughts are about the size of the six-year bill? John Mica: Size matters. (Long pause, Mica laughs.) SB: Any guesses? Would it be […]

Antonio Villaraigosa Rebrands L.A.’s Transit Plan as a National Option

By Damien Newton | Feb 25, 2011 | No Comments

Goodbye “30/10” and hello “Fast Forward America.” Congressman John Mica (R-FL) and Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) brought their road show to Los Angeles earlier this week to get feedback and elicit testimony on how to improve the federal transportation bill. While Boxer was on her “home turf,” it was Mica who sounded like a local, […]

Road Interests Crowd Transpo Bill Panels in Indiana and Chicago

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 23, 2011 | No Comments

Road interests continued to dominate the discussion as members of Congress wound their way through Chicago and Indiana this weekend, gathering feedback for the six-year transportation reauthorization bill. While Streetsblog couldn’t be at every hearing, some of the dedicated souls who belong to the Streetsblog Network were there to document discussions on state and regional […]

Highways Take Center Stage at Columbus Transpo Field Hearing

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 23, 2011 | No Comments

Make federal transportation dollars more flexible. Tie infrastructure investment to economic development. Streamline the construction process. Those were the suggestions of a panel of Ohio officials at a Congressional Field Hearing on Transportation held Saturday in Columbus. In a conversation that focused heavily on roads and highways, Ohio leaders implored the federal government to reduce […]

Poll: Voters From All Walks Support Transportation Improvements, Reform

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 17, 2011 | No Comments

Don’t be fooled by the high-pitched rhetoric in Washington. The vast majority of Americans are united, at least when it comes to the topic of transportation. That’s the conclusion of the Rockefeller Foundation poll released earlier this week. A bipartisan polling team questioned 1,000 American voters nationwide about their attitudes toward the nation’s roads, bridges […]

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