Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Funding

House Prepares to Vote on Extension, Coburn Will Try to Kill Bike/Ped

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 13, 2011 | No Comments

In a couple of hours, the House will vote on the transportation extension bill – under unanimous consent rules. That means a single vote in opposition could delay passage. It’s unclear how we went from a House determined to cut spending levels by more than 30 percent to a House unanimously committed to passing a […]

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Inhofe Supports Clean Extension, Won’t Vote Against Bike/Ped (This Time)

By Alice Ollstein and Tanya Snyder | Sep 8, 2011 | No Comments

The Environment and Public Works Committee unanimously agreed this morning to send a four-month extension of the transportation bill to the full Senate. Chair Barbara Boxer (D-CA) emphasized that it wasn’t easy to get consensus on the extension, especially with many members wanting to move forward with the full two-year bill. Sen. James Inhofe still […]

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Senate’s “Dr. No” Says He’ll Block Transpo Extension Unless Bike/Ped Is Cut

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 6, 2011 | No Comments

Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn is known around the Senate as “Dr. No” for his propensity to hold up key legislation, single-handedly, because it contains something not to his liking (or sometimes because he’s upset about something else entirely.) On Veterans Day in 2009, he shocked even his GOP colleagues by blocking veterans’ benefits because he […]

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GOP Leader’s Infra “Compromise” Is Just Another Ploy to Kill Bike/Ped

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 6, 2011 | No Comments

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has put forth an idea that major news outlets are calling an “olive branch” to President Obama on infrastructure funding. Is he offering to increase spending levels over the starvation program being proposed by Republicans on the House Transportation Committee? No. Is he proposing to include performance measures, making sure […]

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One More Push Can Preserve Federal Safe Routes to School Funding

By Carolyn Szczepanski | Aug 18, 2011 | No Comments

This week, the Safe Routes to School National Conference convenes in Minneapolis, a progressive city determined to become the most bicycle friendly in the nation. But even here, far from the nation’s capital, in a region celebrated for its massive greenway system, drama inside the Beltway has instilled an air of urgency to the event. […]

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Recession Forcing Cutbacks at Nearly 80 Percent of U.S. Transit Agencies

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 17, 2011 | No Comments

How bad have the past two years been for transit agencies in the United States? In a word: bad. In two words: very bad. In survey results released today [PDF], the American Public Transportation Association reports that 51 percent of transit agencies have either raised fares or reduced service since last year. Meanwhile, 79 percent […]

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