Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about U.S. DOT

Florida Gov. Rick Scott Chooses Politics Over Constituents, Rejects HSR Funds

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 16, 2011 | No Comments

Florida Governor Rick Scott announced today he would forfeit $2 billion in federal grants to build a high-speed rail line between Orlando and Tampa. Florida Governor Rick Scott: hot on road spending, cool on rail. Photo: Joe My God The announcement ended months of speculation about whether Scott would join fellow Republican Governors John Kasich […]

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Top DOT Officials Preview the Push for a Transportation Bill

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 26, 2011 | No Comments

Before President Obama made his call for infrastructure investment in the State of the Union address last night, an impressive panel of about a dozen DOT officials addressed the Transportation Research Board’s annual meeting to divulge what they could about the reauthorization of the long-term national transportation law. Secretary Ray LaHood has said he’s confident […]

Fred Barnes: Americans Mainly Want to Stay in Their Cars

By Ben Fried | Nov 3, 2010 | 35 Comments

After yesterday’s electoral drubbing, the Obama administration will have to deal with a starkly different Congress when they make their expected push for a multi-year transportation bill early next year. We know that some influential House Republicans, like John Mica, don’t necessarily believe that bigger highways will solve America’s transportation problems. And we know that […]

State DOT Delays Funding for NYC Bike-Ped Projects [Updated]

By Noah Kazis | Nov 1, 2010 | No Comments

Last week the Tri-State Transportation Campaign’s Michelle Ernst reported that an important funding stream for bike and pedestrian projects is currently stalled. New York State DOT’s Transportation Enhancements Program, which is largely funded by the feds, normally distributes grants for bike and pedestrian projects every two to three years. As Ernst reports, however, it’s already […]

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Bike-Ped Funding Dips as Stimulus Spending Slows

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 1, 2010 | No Comments

Via the League of American Bicyclists, new information is out about how much the feds are spending on bike-ped projects. While federal funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects is down a bit from last year’s all-time high, it still comes in at more than a billion dollars. A third of the money is from the […]

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T4America Maps TIGER Grantees: Find One Near You

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 28, 2010 | No Comments

Thanks to Transportation for America for putting together this handy map of U.S. DOT’s TIGER grant recipients. It shows the geographical reach of the program, as well as the broad range of projects benefiting from the grants. T4America says: In two batches in February and October 2010, USDOT gave out a total of $2.1 billion […]

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