Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Stimulus

Will Obama’s Transportation Jobs Plan Avoid Funding Sprawl?

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 28, 2011 | No Comments

USDOT has made public the breakdown of President Obama’s $50 billion plan to create jobs through transportation infrastructure investment. The administration says: “It will put people to work upgrading 150,000 miles of road, laying/maintaining 4,000 miles of train tracks, restoring 150 miles of runways, and putting in place a next-generation air-traffic control system that will […]

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Obama Includes Infra Bank in His Jobs Push; Mica Rejects It Out of Hand

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 9, 2011 | No Comments

Last night, President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress to present his new jobs plan, a bill he’s calling the American Jobs Act. He relied on the well-worn appeal to people’s patriotic competitiveness by pointing out that China is improving its infrastructure while the U.S. is sitting idly by. Without mentioning the dollar figure […]

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Stimulus-Backed Programs Struggle to Stay Alive After Funds Run Out

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 29, 2011 | No Comments

In an old supermarket space in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, a diverse community of bicycle aficionados are getting greasy. Young and old, Latino and white, they are truing wheels and replacing cables and adjusting brakes in L.A.’s newest, and completely unplanned, bike co-op. Bici Libre, as it’s called, got its start when the […]

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GOP Demands a Stop to Stim Spending. What Will It Mean for Rail Projects?

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 1, 2010 | No Comments

The incoming Republican head of the Appropriations Committee wants to take back stimulus funds promised to states and localities for much-needed infrastructure programs, including more than $6 billion in transportation funding. High-speed rail projects would take an especially big hit under the plan. Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA) has introduced H.R. 6403, the American Recovery and […]

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Bike-Ped Funding Dips as Stimulus Spending Slows

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 1, 2010 | No Comments

Via the League of American Bicyclists, new information is out about how much the feds are spending on bike-ped projects. While federal funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects is down a bit from last year’s all-time high, it still comes in at more than a billion dollars. A third of the money is from the […]

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Republicans Line Up to Oppose Obama’s Transportation Proposal

By Adam Voiland | Sep 8, 2010 | No Comments

The critical multi-year transportation bill, which lawmakers have sidelined since last summer as they’ve quarreled about how to pay for it, looks to be back on the agenda after President Obama’s pugnacious Labor Day speech, in which he called on Congress to ramp up investment in transportation. The broad outline of Obama’s plan calls for […]

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