Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

Transpo Sec Rumor Mill: Rep. Ray LaHood the Leading Candidate

By Ben Fried | Dec 17, 2008 | 37 Comments

Photo: Wikipedia The Hill is reporting that Illinois Representative Ray LaHood, described as a centrist Republican, is in talks with the Obama team about taking a Cabinet post, most likely as Secretary of Transportation. The official announcement could be made as early as Friday. If LaHood is chosen, it would come as something of a […]

Why Stimulus Money Should Go to Cities, Not States

By Ben Fried | Dec 16, 2008 | 17 Comments

I spoke earlier today to David Burwell, a co-founder of the Surface Transportation Policy Project who is currently a strategic consultant with the Transportation for America campaign, about how the stimulus package is shaping up for transportation projects, why it might go wrong, and what can be done to set it on the right track. […]

Stimulus Package on Track to Perpetuate Transpo Status Quo

By Ben Fried | Dec 15, 2008 | 12 Comments

Will stimulus cash help implement New York’s five BRT pilot routes? Image: Gotham Gazette. A front page story in yesterday’s Washington Post has the most thorough analysis to date of how infrastructure spending may be divvied up in an Obama stimulus package. Nothing is set in stone, but the dividing lines are increasingly clear: States […]

Big Three Ad Campaign Fails to Win Over Congress

By Brad Aaron | Dec 11, 2008 | 18 Comments

It could be irrelevant after today’s action in the Senate, but this viral Big Three ad parody is no less amusing. Come to think of it, it’s not really that far off the mark.

Will Transit, Bikes, and Peds Get a Stimulus We Can Believe In?

By Ben Fried | Dec 5, 2008 | 11 Comments

The Smith/9th St. subway station is one of many that could benefit from stimulus spending. Photo: Victoria Belanger/Flickr Sam Schwartz has an op-ed in today’s Daily News urging New York’s leaders to get ready for the massive stimulus package taking shape in Washington: Billions of dollars are being dangled in front of big cities in […]

How to Build a Better Infrastructure Plan

By Ben Fried | Dec 2, 2008 | 5 Comments

Economists and lawmakers are batting around increasingly large figures for the Obama admin’s upcoming stimulus package — 300 billion dollars, 500 billion, a trillion? Whatever the final sum, a big cut will get plowed into transpo projects. The question is whether all that money will perpetuate an outdated system or lead toward a future where […]

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