Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about 2009 Transportation Bill

Obama Administration’s Transportation Goals: Read Them Here

By Elana Schor | Jul 2, 2009 | 2 Comments

When the Obama administration proposed an 18-month delay in drafting the next federal transportation bill, U.S. DOT chief Ray LaHood called for Congress to include "critical reforms" alongside the extension of the existing law. But details on those reforms have been kept under wraps — until now. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, with his boss at […]

Boxer and Inhofe Agree: Transportation Policy Reform Can Wait

By Elana Schor | Jun 25, 2009 | 5 Comments

Green transportation advocates are pressing Congress to refuse any new spending that’s not tied to reform of the existing system — a call that influential senators in both parties ruled out today. Photo: CNN Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) joined Sen. Jim Inhofe (OK), the panel’s ranking GOPer, in endorsing […]

House Transpo Leaders and Obama DOT Run Off in Opposite Directions

By Elana Schor | Jun 24, 2009 | No Comments

The conflicted state of federal transportation policy-making was on vivid display today, as House lawmakers pressed ahead on a $500 billion bill that still lacks a funding source while the Obama administration scrambled to find $20 billion for a bailout of the highway trust fund. Members of the famously bipartisan House transportation committee lined up […]

STAA Tuned: Transpo Bill Leaves Funding Question Hanging

By Ryan Avent | Jun 23, 2009 | 1 Comment

We now have in our hands the 775-page Surface Transportation Authorization Act, which was released yesterday by James Oberstar (D-MN), chairman of the House transportation committee. It is, in many ways, a remarkable bill — a blueprint for how transportation planning and infrastructure construction might undergo a significant shift away from the mindsets that have […]

Oberstar’s Transportation Bill: The Early Word

By Elana Schor | Jun 22, 2009 | 3 Comments

Policy wonks across the capital are still poring over the 775-page bill released earlier today by Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-MN), chairman of the House transportation committee. But searching the legislation for the key topics being debated by transportation reformers reveals new details and raises new questions. The new House transportation bill brings good news for […]

Oberstar’s Transportation Bill: Download It in Full

By Elana Schor | Jun 22, 2009 | No Comments

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar’s (D-MN) new federal bill, which he previewed last Wednesday despite pushback from the Obama administration, is officially out. You can download the 775-page legislative text right here, thanks to Transportation for America. Streetsblog Capitol Hill is thumbing through it now to provide highlights later today.

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