Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

Tell the Highway Lobby About ’09 Transpo Spending

By Brad Aaron | | 1 Comment
Not to be outdone, the road-building lobbyists at the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) have launched their campaign to influence federal transportation spending priorities over the next year, including the 2009 TEA package. Last week, while encouraging team Obama to incorporate highway construction into its economic stimulus plan, AASHTO rolled out […]

Merge

By Aaron Naparstek | | 3 Comments
Conservatives are fleshing out their next generation transportation ideas and Matthew Yglesias suggests that there could be a pretty big area of overlap between the left and right in this particular policy realm: To my way of thinking an enormous amount of good could be done if conservatives were more interested in applying really basic […]

GM’s Ransom Note to America

By Brad Aaron | | 30 Comments
With the president-elect, Congress and the current White House divided on how or if American taxpayers should save the domestic auto industry, General Motors is taking its case directly to the public with this video and accompanying web site. More threat than appeal, the message, in a nutshell, is "Do it, or else." On gmfactsandfiction.com, […]

Obama Names Transpo Transition Team

By Sarah Goodyear | | 12 Comments
The Obama-Biden transition team today unveiled its "Agency Review Teams" — the people charged with "a thorough review of key departments, agencies and commissions of the United States government, as well as the White House, to provide the President-elect, Vice President-elect, and key advisors with information needed to make strategic policy, budgetary, and personnel decisions […]
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