Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about U.S. DOT

Who Killed Transit on the New Tappan Zee? Feds and State DOT Won’t Say.

By Noah Kazis | Oct 24, 2011 | 26 Comments

Call it the mystery of the missing transit. One of the state’s biggest transit projects, in the works for nearly a decade, was canceled overnight and no one will explain why, or even claim responsibility for the decision. Two weeks ago, each of the four alternatives for replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge included a new […]

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LaHood: Engineers Should Embrace Next-Gen Bikeway Design Guide

By Carolyn Szczepanski | Oct 14, 2011 | No Comments

If Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has anything to say about it, every transportation planner in the country should have a shiny new engineering guide on his or her bookshelf. It’s been six months since the National Association of City Transportation Officials released the Urban Bikeways Design Guide in an online format. Yesterday, LaHood was among […]

Will Cuomo Scrap Transit on the Tappan Zee and Just Widen the Highway?

By Noah Kazis | Oct 11, 2011 | 9 Comments

For nine years, the state of New York has been studying how to replace the aging Tappan Zee Bridge. The bridge, which is more than 50 years old, requires ever more expensive repairs to stay structurally sound and was never intended to carry the volume of traffic that pours over it every day. Since 2002, […]

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Major Transpo Projects Chosen For Federal Fast-Tracking Lean Multi-Modal

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 11, 2011 | No Comments

Last month Streetsblog asked whether President Obama would select transportation projects that reduce congestion, improve air quality, and create jobs when he picked several infrastructure investments, among those recommended by agency officials, to fast-track. The selection of these projects, intended to help spur short-term job creation, could avoid the mistakes of the 2009 stimulus program, […]

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USDOT Tries to Resuscitate the HSR Dreams Congress Wants to Bury

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 5, 2011 | No Comments

High-speed rail has had a rough go of it lately. The House refused to give it a dime for next year, while the Senate only managed to allocate a fraction of what the president wanted. President Obama stuck some money back in via his jobs package, but it already seems clear that the package won’t […]

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Federal Support for Smart Planning Is on the Line Today

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 20, 2011 | No Comments

A Senate panel will vote today on two budget bills for FY2012, one of which is for transportation and housing programs. The draft of the bill isn’t available until after the subcommittee markup today, but Smart Growth America is calling attention to the fact that it’s important to make sure the bill includes funding for […]

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