Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Funding

House Attack on Safe Streets Makes Transpo Bill Ever More Elusive

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 12, 2012 | No Comments

We reported last week that the House had proposed allowing states to “opt out” of funding bicycle and pedestrian safety improvements in its counter-offer to the Senate during transportation bill negotiations. The House GOP essentially wants to reject the Cardin-Cochran amendment, which gave local governments control over half the “Additional Activities” funding set aside for […]

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House GOP Threatens to Wipe Out Local Control Over Bike/Ped Funding

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 8, 2012 | No Comments

The House GOP couldn’t pass a transportation bill of their own, so now they want to undo one of the major bi-partisan achievements in the Senate transportation bill. As part of its counter-offer to the Senate in conference committee negotiations over the transportation bill, the House appears to be proposing the elimination of the Cardin-Cochran […]

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Transpo Bill Conference Devolves Into Talk of Extensions

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 7, 2012 | No Comments

If you were still hoping a real bill could come out of the transportation conference, here’s a bitter pill: House Speaker John Boehner is now talking about a six-month extension of the current law. That extension would expire at the end of the year, along with such a massive bundle of economic initiatives that the […]

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Boxer and Inhofe Make Their Offer to the House, Try to Avoid 10th Extension

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 5, 2012 | No Comments

The time-and-venue change for Sen. Barbara Boxer’s press conference earlier today was apparently due to the fact that she was taking care of critical business: hand-delivering the Senate’s latest offer to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Chair John Mica (R-FL) wasn’t there to personally receive the document, which EPW Ranking Member James Inhofe joined […]

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Stakeholders Beg Conferees to Stop Acting Like Children

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 5, 2012 | No Comments

Sen. Barbara Boxer’s noon press conference started out as a bit of a mess. The Senate press gallery announced it was canceled five minutes before it was due to start. Then three minutes later, the EPW committee sent out a notice that the event had changed locations and would start 20 minutes later. Needless to […]

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Broad Coalition Urges Congress to Support Local Control of Bike-Ped Funds

By Ben Goldman | May 31, 2012 | No Comments

A coalition of 70 organizations, including the US Conference of Mayors, American Heart Association, and the National PTA, have signed on to a letter from AmericaBikes urging Congress to preserve the Cardin-Cochran amendment — a provision in the Senate transportation bill that allows local agencies to directly access funds street safety projects. The letter is addressed to […]

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