Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

The Build for America Plan: Invest in Transportation, Create Jobs

By Ben Fried | Oct 16, 2008 | 12 Comments

Janette Sadik-Khan, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney and Lee Sander. Photo: Paul White. The Build for America campaign officially launched yesterday afternoon at Grand Central Terminal, one of six events held in cities across the nation. DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan — joined by MTA chief Lee Sander, U.S. reps Jerrold Nadler and Carolyn Maloney, and a bevy […]

Transportation for America Launches Legislative Campaign

By Sarah Goodyear | Oct 15, 2008 | 3 Comments

Today marks the start of Transportation for America‘s "Build for America" campaign, which will work to influence the transportation funding legislation that goes before the next Congress in 2009. (You’ll be hearing a lot more about it here in the coming months; we have received a grant from the T4America campaign to kick-start the development […]

Ask the Candidates to Talk Transportation at Tomorrow’s Debate

By Ben Fried | Oct 14, 2008 | 2 Comments

Insert new question here. We’ve noted throughout this election season that transportation policy is something of a third rail in presidential politics. Gas prices and auto industry jobs are irresistible fodder for campaign promises, but even the candidate who has decent ideas about rail travel and bike infrastructure doesn’t mention transit on the stump. (The […]

PBS Exposes the Joys of Transit

By Ben Fried | Oct 10, 2008 | 12 Comments

NOW host David Brancaccio does an interview on the LA Metro. Click through for the full video. The latest episode of NOW is surely the most effective takedown of car-dependent planning ever broadcast in news magazine format. Adhering to the familiar contours of pocketbook journalism, "Driven to Despair" starts with a sympathetic portrayal of the […]

James Oberstar on the Future of U.S. Transportation Funding

By Ben Fried | Oct 10, 2008 | 1 Comment

Minnesota Representative James Oberstar is perhaps the strongest advocate for transit on Capitol Hill. In a recent Q&A with the Kansas City Star, he shared his thoughts on how the financial crisis will affect federal investments in transportation: Transit currently receives about 20 percent of federal surface transportation funding. Next year’s surface transportation authorization will […]

Economy Hitting the Skids? Time to Get Ambitious About Transportation

By Ben Fried | Oct 7, 2008 | 17 Comments

T.A. director Paul White sends along this little nugget he came across in the New York Times archive. Read it for a timely review (penned by a pre-Bilbao Herbert Muschamp) of a Municipal Art Society show staged the last time an economic downturn coincided with a presidential election, in 1992: "Steel, Stone and Backbone," which […]

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