Details Lacking in Federal Infrastructure ‘Deal’ (But it Will Likely Favor Cars)
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Washington celebrates a bipartisan infrastructure agreement, but advocates are still wondering what, exactly, the bill will actually build.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Policy
OPINION: Envisioning a Federal Program to Increase Transit Service
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It took the clarifying urgency of a severe pandemic to make transit service a national funding priority. But we need to do more, argues two advocates at TransitCenter.
Stringer Sends Secretary Pete a Laundry List of Local Infrastructure Needs
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He's not mayor yet, but Scott Stringer still has a to-do list for the federal government to help upgrade the city's infrasturcutre.
Why Biden Is Right to Think Beyond the DOT in His Infrastructure Package
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Opponents of President Biden's infrastructure plan ignore that "transportation infrastructure" must include tackling our frayed social safety nets and our broken street designs.
Mass. Senator Markey Has Four Bills to Loosen Car Culture’s Grip on U.S. Cities
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The next infrastructure package might bring some of sustainable transportation advocates' most long-sought bills back to life — and establish new pots of money for bike lanes, sidewalks, and more.
MEMO FROM THE MIDWEST: Buttigieg’s American Roots Might Make Him a Great USDOT Secretary
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Is Buttigieg a hayseed Hoosier who wouldn't know a headway from a harvester, or a political ecoterrorist hellbent on leaving rural American in the lurch and laughing all the way to the Amtrak station? Neither: He's a guy from South Bend.