Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Funding

Reminder: Amtrak Subsidies Pale in Comparison to Highway Subsidies

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 21, 2012 | No Comments

Mica went after subsidies in this one, and he clearly thinks this is a winning issue. After all, Amtrak has gotten nearly $1 billion a year in federal funds over its 41-year existence. The per-ticket subsidy over the past five years has averaged nearly $51. Mica compared that to other forms of transportation: Using 2008 […]

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What Would Happen If Washington Cuts Transpo Funding 35 Percent?

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 14, 2012 | No Comments

The Republicans have retreated from their insistence on cutting transportation spending by 35 percent to match Highway Trust Fund revenues — for now. But the problem is far from solved. As a reminder of the dangers such a policy presents, the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Eno Center for Transportation put out a new report […]

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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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MAP-21 Puts the Squeeze on Bridge Repair and Bikes

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 26, 2012 | No Comments

One of the most popular elements of the new transportation authorization is its consolidation or elimination of 60 federal programs. But this cleanup is not without its casualties. One of those casualties is the off-system bridge program. And another one, indirectly, is funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects. As you can see, the Highway Bridge […]

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Transportation Investments and America’s Quality-of-Life Gap

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 20, 2012 | No Comments

For a while it didn’t seem certain, but after a critical vote earlier this month, it looks like California’s on track to build high-speed rail. And, I’ll be the first to admit, California — with two large, global metros just a few hundred miles apart — is a great place for it. Despite some reservations […]

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Under New Bill, America’s Transpo Loan Program Ignores National Goals

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 3, 2012 | No Comments

In the highly polarized and antagonistic transportation bill negotiations, dragged out over the course of almost a year, there was one thing that Democrats and Republicans could agree on: vastly expanding the TIFIA loan program. The Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) program has, since 1998, provided federal credit assistance at favorable interest rates […]

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