Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Ray LaHood

Ray LaHood Gives Go-Ahead to Portland’s Sprawl-Inducing Mega-Bridge

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 9, 2011 | No Comments

You don’t need to look too hard to find signs that the ground is shifting when it comes to highway construction. Around the country, state DOTs are running out of money. Headlines ask “Are Freeways Doomed?” Overall vehicle miles traveled are down in the Pacific Northwest. But many state and regional transportation agencies continue to […]

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Even the Godfather of Rail~Volution Wouldn’t Raise the Gas Tax Right Now

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 19, 2011 | No Comments

At Rail~Volution yesterday, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) — also known as the godfather of the “rail~volution” — said even he wouldn’t raise the gas tax right now. “We should make some adjustments to a gas tax that hasn’t increased since 1993,” Blumenauer said. “Half the people think the gas tax goes up every year.” He […]

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LaHood: Engineers Should Embrace Next-Gen Bikeway Design Guide

By Carolyn Szczepanski | Oct 14, 2011 | No Comments

If Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has anything to say about it, every transportation planner in the country should have a shiny new engineering guide on his or her bookshelf. It’s been six months since the National Association of City Transportation Officials released the Urban Bikeways Design Guide in an online format. Yesterday, LaHood was among […]

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TIGER III Will Grant $527 Million For Innovative Transportation Projects

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 30, 2011 | No Comments

It’s TIGER III time. The first round was $1.5 billion. The second round was $600 million. And now, get ready for round three. After surviving countless threats by budget-cutting Republicans in Congress, TIGER is back, granting $527 million for innovative transportation projects. The “Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery” program lets cities, states and regions compete […]

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Transportation Secretary LaHood Answers Streetsblog Readers’ Questions

By Ray LaHood | Jun 30, 2011 | No Comments

Editor’s Note: Last month, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood invited Streetsblog readers to submit questions for a Q&A installment on his blog, the Fast Lane. Here are his answers. (For maximum effect, picture the secretary delivering these remarks while standing on a table.) Since March, I’ve been doing a monthly video series called “On the Go […]

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Ray LaHood Wants to Hear From Streetsblog Readers

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 13, 2011 | No Comments

Got a question for Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood? He’s all ears. LaHood has been doing a series of video chats where he responds to questions from the public, and a DOT official told me they would like to “explicitly invite Streetsblog readers to submit their questions to the Secretary” for the next episode of “On […]

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