Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Highway Administration

How Highway Spending Could Become as Transparent as Bike/Ped Spending

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 11, 2012 | No Comments

“There’s an inverse proportion of the size of a transportation program to the amount of transparency,” says Deron Lovaas of the Natural Resources Defense Council. While anyone can easily find in granular detail anything they would ever want to know about where bike/ped money goes, and they can get a pretty good idea of what’s going […]

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When Livability Projects Meet Eisenhower-Era Design Standards

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 25, 2012 | No Comments

Tearing down highways, as New Haven, Connecticut is planning to do to a short section of Route 34, is a rare (though increasingly sought after) outcome in American transportation policy. Some highway removals are unintended consequences of neglect or disaster, like the collapse of New York’s Miller Highway and the damage caused to San Francisco’s […]

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FHWA: Small Investments in Bike/Ped Infrastructure Can Pay Off in a Big Way

By Tanya Snyder | May 1, 2012 | No Comments

If you ever doubted whether a small investment in biking and walking could have a large impact, here is your proof. The last transportation law, SAFETEA-LU, provided four communities with four years of funding to build an infrastructure network for nonmotorized transportation (a fancy way of saying “sidewalks and bike paths”). It wasn’t a lot […]

Tappan Zee Costs $1.4 Billion More in Cuomo’s Loan App Than in Cuomo’s EIS

By Noah Kazis | Feb 15, 2012 | 2 Comments

As part of an application for a $2 billion federal loan to help pay for a replacement Tappan Zee Bridge that would double the width of the current bridge, the Cuomo administration has put forward a new and much-higher estimate of the project’s cost: $6 billion. That’s $800 million higher than previous press reports had […]

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OMB: Senate Seeking Too Much Highway Money to Fund Transportation Bill

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 7, 2011 | No Comments

Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) and his Finance Committee have been looking high and low for a $12 billion patch to fund the transportation reauthorization bill that passed the Senate EPW Committee a few weeks ago. According to Politico’s transportation reporters, the top Republican on the Finance Committee, Sen. Orrin Hatch, has already rejected several of […]

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