Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Funding

WSJ: Mica Says Transit Funding Will Stay “About the Same”

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 22, 2011 | No Comments

Update: Transportation Committee staff says Mica has confirmed what he meant: “He was referring to the share. Keep in mind that we have no numbers or details for a bill yet — the hearing process is not yet finished and we have not drafted a bill. He was simply speculating at this point.” Using the […]

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House Transportation Committee Rejects Obama’s 2012 Budget Request

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 22, 2011 | No Comments

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is having its say about the president’s ambitious – and unpaid-for – budget request for transportation. “The [president’s] proposal assumes a ‘placeholder revenue increase’ of $435 billion over a 10-year period but does not identify how to pay for the revenue increase,” says the committee’s “Views and Estimates” document, […]

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Rep. LaTourette Tells Transit Advocates to Ask Congress for What They Need

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 16, 2011 | No Comments

Transit officials spent the day on Capitol Hill yesterday, meeting with Congressional offices as part of the American Public Transportation Association’s legislative conference. Transportation Committee Chair John Mica suggested they ask members for a six-year bill. Secretary Ray LaHood urged them to ask for support for President Obama’s “big, bold vision” for transportation. Rep. Steve […]

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Will Senate Republicans Send Back Their Own States’ TIGER Money?

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 14, 2011 | No Comments

TIGER grants, announced last year, hang in the balance as the Senate debates the package of House-passed spending cuts. Congress is about to vote on another extension of the current budget, cutting another $2 billion per week. (Up until now, those “cuts” have mostly been budget items from 2010 that the Democrats weren’t going to […]

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Cyclists Descend on Capitol Hill, Ask Lawmakers to Preserve Bike Funding

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 11, 2011 | No Comments

Every year, the cyclists that gather in Washington for the National Bike Summit meet with hundreds of Congressional offices to ask for expanded bike funding. This year, they’re just asking lawmakers not to cut it. With an anti-spending mood prevailing inside the Beltway, bicycling advocates are trying to be realistic. “We haven’t forgotten that there’s […]

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APTA Survey: Transpo Bill Delay May Force Job Losses in U.S. Transit Industry

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 2, 2011 | No Comments

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and House Transportation Committee Chair John Mica (R-FL) both agree that a new surface transportation authorization bill needs to be finished before Congress leaves for the August recess. But that doesn’t mean it’ll happen. ImpulseNC makes overhead wire systems like these for transit networks. It could lay off workers or move […]

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