Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Anthony Foxx

FHWA Proposes to Let States Fail Their Own Safety Goals With Impunity

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 14, 2014 | No Comments

Secretary Anthony Foxx has made clear that safety — and specifically, safety for bicyclists and pedestrians — is a priority of his administration. If that’s true, his administration sure has a funny way of showing it. The Federal Highway Administration’s proposal on safety performance measures allows states to fail to meet half their own safety […]

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Anthony Foxx: Bicycle Infrastructure Can Be a “Ladder of Opportunity”

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 5, 2014 | No Comments

This morning, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx’s blog post is all about bicycling. He opens by touting the complete streets policy he helped implement in Charlotte (it passed before he was mayor) and the city’s bike-share system — the largest in the Southeast. His post follows on his speech yesterday to the National Bike Summit, which […]

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Secretary Foxx Pledges to Make Bike/Ped Safety a Priority

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 15, 2014 | No Comments

Pedestrian crash statistics aren’t just numbers to Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. He himself was the victim of one of those crashes once, while out jogging. “I got lucky,” he told a packed room at the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board today. “But there are lots of people out there that aren’t so lucky.” […]

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Foxx: “We’ve Got to Look at Transportation in a Multimodal Fashion”

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 1, 2013 | No Comments

Tomorrow marks the end of Anthony Foxx’s first month as the U.S. secretary of transportation. Today he met with reporters who have been eager for an on-the-record meeting with him. Though Foxx has been confident and specific in answering questions by members of Congress, he was more reserved with the press gaggle. He repeated some […]

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At First Hearing, Foxx Defends Projects That Advance the “Public Good”

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 25, 2013 | No Comments

Should the nation’s largest infrastructure loan program finance projects that make the transportation system more productive and efficient? Hell no, says Senator David Vitter, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Hundreds of millions of dollars should be available to any old project that comes along, as long as it has a […]

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Anthony Foxx Confirmed Unanimously as U.S. Secretary of Transportation

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 27, 2013 | No Comments

After a remarkably smooth and uncontentious process, Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx has just been confirmed by the full Senate as the 17th U.S. Secretary of Transportation. Not a single senator voted against — or even abstained from — his confirmation. Coming to the position as the mayor of a major southern city, Foxx brings with […]

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