Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Funding

Dems Grudgingly Approve House Transpo Extension’s Disastrous Timeline

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 16, 2014 | No Comments

Yesterday, during the one-hour debate period over the House proposal to extend transportation funding through May 31, lawmaker after lawmaker stood up to condemn the bill. America needs a long-term transportation bill, they said. A short-term stopgap only creates more uncertainty. And then they voted for it. More Democrats than Republicans voted for it, in […]

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House Proposes 8-Month Transpo Bill in Hopes of a Republican Senate in 2015

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 9, 2014 | No Comments

While a six-year Senate transportation bill languishes in partisan purgatory, the House Ways and Means Committee has proposed an eight-month patch that would backfill the Highway Trust Fund until May 31, 2015. That would punt the transportation bill debate until a new Congress takes over — one that’s expected to have Republican majorities in both […]

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Why the Federal Funding Emergency Matters for Transportation Reform

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 7, 2014 | No Comments

Why does it matter if state departments of transportation get less money? In light of last week’s news that the U.S. DOT might have to ration its payments to states in the absence of new revenue for the federal transportation program, we posed that question to David Goldberg, communications director at Transportation for America. After all, a lot of […]

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FHWA: Bike-Ped Investments Pay Off By Cutting Traffic and Improving Health

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 26, 2014 | No Comments

Nine years after launching a program to measure the impact of bike and pedestrian investments in four communities, the Federal Highway Administration credits the program with increasing walking trips by nearly a quarter and biking trips by nearly half, while averting 85 million miles of driving since its inception. In 2005, the FHWA’s Nonmotorized Transportation […]

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371 City Leaders Ask Boxer For More Local Control Over Bike/Ped Money

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 25, 2014 | No Comments

Last week, 371 mayors and other city leaders wrote a letter [PDF] to Sen. Barbara Boxer, chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, in support of local control over transportation dollars for bike and pedestrian projects. About two-thirds of the signatories are mayors, from cities as big as Philadelphia and Los Angeles and as […]

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Senators Murphy (D) and Corker (R) Propose 12-Cent Gas Tax Increase

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 18, 2014 | No Comments

There are several proposals on the table to stave off the impending insolvency of the Highway Trust Fund (which pays for transit, biking, and walking projects too) in two months. Just now, two senators teamed up to announce one that might actually have a chance. Sens. Bob Corker (R-TN) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) have proposed […]

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