Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Funding

“This Is Not a Good Bill”: Congress Holds Its Nose, Passes Debt Bill

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 2, 2011 | No Comments

Both houses of Congress have now put their stamp of approval on the bill to raise the debt ceiling, just hours before a deadline that would have lowered the U.S. credit rating, forced the country to default on its debts, and potentially triggered a worldwide recession. No one seems very excited about the legislation. Sen. […]

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Debt Deal Could Mean More Painful Cuts for Transportation

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 1, 2011 | No Comments

The House and Senate are getting close to voting on a deal, reached over the weekend, to raise the debt ceiling and cut spending. There’s nothing in the legislative text that says anything specifically about transportation or the Highway Trust Fund, but it’s clear that the cuts mandated in the agreement will affect all sectors. […]

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Bike League: “Eligibility” for Bike-Ped Isn’t the Same As “Dedicated Funding”

By Ben Fried | Jul 27, 2011 | No Comments

At this point, we’re not expecting any movement on a transportation bill, in either house, before the August recess. (After that, get ready for a panicked frenzy of activity ahead of the September 30 deadline.) From what we hear from Sen. Barbara Boxer’s staff, the EPW bill includes dedicated funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects. […]

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Study: Building Roads to Cure Congestion Is an Exercise in Futility

By Tanya Snyder | May 31, 2011 | No Comments

We hear it all the time: The road lobby insists that the only way to reduce mind-numbing traffic congestion on the roads they built is to build new roads. Federal funding gives huge blank checks to state DOTs, which tend to prioritize road building over transit, bridge maintenance or anything else. But mounting evidence suggests […]

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Dangerous By Design: How the U.S. Builds Roads That Kill Pedestrians

By Tanya Snyder | May 24, 2011 | No Comments

If you had to cross this road on your walk to work, wouldn’t you rather drive? Millions of Americans live in communities without safe places to walk. And so they either don’t walk, adding to traffic congestion with every trip, or they do walk, risking joining the ranks of the 47,700 pedestrians killed and 688,000 […]

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Good News From the Senate: Transit Operating Assistance and Much More

By Tanya Snyder | May 19, 2011 | No Comments

Today’s Senate Banking Committee hearing held some good news for transit riders. Unintuitive though it may be, Banking has jurisdiction over public transportation in the Senate. While in the House, the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee handles every aspect of the reauthorization, in the Senate the bill gets carved up. Environment and Public Works is taking […]

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