Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Transportation Bill

How the Federal TIGER Program Revived a Cleveland Neighborhood

By Angie Schmitt | May 15, 2014 | No Comments

Cleveland doesn’t look like a dying Rust Belt city these days in the Little Italy and University Circle neighborhoods. In fact, it looks like it’s thriving. At the corner of Euclid and Mayfield, a new mixed-use development — MRN’s “Uptown” — is filling out, hosting a bookstore, a bakery, bars, and new apartments. Just across the street, […]

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President Obama’s Hollow Push for Infrastructure Investment

By Tanya Snyder | May 14, 2014 | No Comments

This afternoon, President Obama stood by New York’s Tappan Zee Bridge and made a speech pressing Congress to do something about infrastructure investment. It’s part of his Infrastructure Week push for Congress to pass a fully funded transportation reauthorization bill. Many other groups are spending this week sounding the same horn. “If they don’t act […]

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Barbara Boxer’s Transportation Bill: Same As It Ever Was

By Tanya Snyder | May 13, 2014 | No Comments

The future of national transportation policy is pretty much like the present of national transportation policy, if the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has its way: underfunded and highway-centric. The bill released by Senator Barbara Boxer’s EPW Committee yesterday [PDF] rejects pretty much everything the Obama administration put forth in its bill, including permanent […]

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How the GROW AMERICA Act Could Modernize Federal Transportation Policy

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 30, 2014 | No Comments

Yesterday, U.S. DOT did something it hadn’t done for a decade: submit a surface transportation authorization bill to Congress. And what a bill it is. The $302 billion, four-year GROW AMERICA Act has several major reforms that would shift federal policy in a more multi-modal direction. One big change that we’ve noted before is that […]

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Obama Administration Sends Transportation Bill to Congress

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 29, 2014 | No Comments

The Obama administration today sent Congress its proposal for a multi-year transportation bill, which it’s calling the GROW AMERICA Act. The bill, based on the budget proposal President Obama released two months ago, relies on corporate tax reform to raise $87 billion to fill the hole in the Highway Trust Fund. The four-year bill would cost $302 billion. […]

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Boxer Announces Plan to Maintain Status Quo in Next Transpo Bill

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 10, 2014 | No Comments

Last year, while the House flailed in partisan misery, the Senate passed a transportation bill 74 to 22. When the bill was signed into law, it was considered one of the few real achievements of a deeply divided Congress. Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Barbara Boxer got tremendous credit for enacting legislation three years […]

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