Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Transportation Bill

Eight Burning Questions About Post-Election Transpo Policy and Politics

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 3, 2012 | No Comments

If I’ve learned one thing from all the meetings about transportation I’ve covered, it’s this: There is no progress without a solution on funding. Every conversation about infrastructure turns on the question of how to pay for it. As the power of the gas tax declines, can it be restored or replaced? Does the political […]

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How States Are Adapting to MAP-21’s Changes to Bike/Ped Funding

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 28, 2012 | No Comments

The current transportation law dealt a few hard knocks to bicycling and walking programs. One big one was the restructuring of the Transportation Enhancements program into something called Transportation Alternatives, which has to fund more types of projects with less money. The idea is that each state’s TA money will get split in half. Fifty […]

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Moving People or Moving Vehicles: How Should We Grade America’s Streets?

By Darren Flusche | Nov 27, 2012 | No Comments

Darren Flusche is the policy director of the League of American Bicyclists. Should the performance of this street… …be measured like this road? Under the new federal transportation bill, known as MAP-21, the performance of these two roads could be measured the same way — even though one is a bustling business district, and the other is […]

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Election Reveals Who Will Shape the Next Transportation Bill

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 7, 2012 | No Comments

Yesterday’s election made history on many different fronts: gay marriage, immigration, consumer protection, and more. But America also voted to maintain essentially the same balance of power in Washington that has brought about so much gridlock. In the transportation arena, that gridlock meant three years of dithering on a national bill and, ultimately, a new law […]

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At NACTO Conference, LaHood Delivers Straight Talk on MAP-21

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 25, 2012 | No Comments

After a rousing opening speech from NYC Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood took the stage at the “Designing Cities” conference of the National Association of City Transportation Officials yesterday. Streetsblog stringer Dani Simons was there and briefed us on the highlights. LaHood said: We’ve made amazing progress in cities in the past […]

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FHWA Helps Cities and Towns Land Bike/Ped Funding

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 23, 2012 | No Comments

American cities and towns should get a leg up on using federal funds to make streets safer for biking and walking, thanks to rules enacted yesterday by the Federal Highway Administration. MAP-21, the current transportation law, was passed hurriedly enough that not all the i’s could be dotted and t’s could be crossed — and […]

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