Tanya Snyder
Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radios Washington bureau and for public radio stations around the country. She lives car-free in a transit-oriented and bike-friendly neighborhood of Washington, DC.
Recent Posts
Was Eric Cantor Forced to Ride This Bike?
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Eric Cantor, I am willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and believe that 60 Minutes forced you to pose for this shot. Because, Mr. Majority Leader, it seems a little hypocritical that a person who has worked so hard to keep others from biking would enjoy it himself. To figure out whether […]
Ron Paul: Stop Subsidizing Highways, Let “Transits” Flourish
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Before the Iowa caucuses, we wrote briefly about the candidates’ positions on transportation, but we’d missed this tidbit. (Thanks to an anonymous reader for bringing it to our attention.) In this video from 2009, Ron Paul responds to a supporter’s angst about light rail – he wants to oppose anything that was built with government […]
Conservative Pols Hate Government Subsidies, Unless They Subsidize Sprawl
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UPDATE 1/5/12: Corrects the Congressional district outline. At a recent meeting of the city council in Celina, Ohio, members considered a request to extend sewer lines to six homes that are currently outside the city’s boundaries. Extending the sewer line 800 feet to the houses would cost the city $40,000. A new water line was […]
Romney Wins Iowa, Loses the Rail-Passenger Vote
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In a landslide (er, eight-vote) victory over former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum in the Iowa caucus last night, Mitt Romney solidified his lead over the rag-tag field of GOP nominees. He also took an opportunity, the day before the caucus, to make a tired old argument against public support of passenger rail service. I gotta […]
Record Fuel Exports Don’t Mean the U.S. Is Not Addicted to Foreign Oil
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The AP is reporting that for the first time since Harry Truman was president, the U.S. is a net exporter of refined petroleum products. In fact, fuel was the country’s top export in 2011, totaling $73.4 billion. However, “the small positive net export balance on petroleum products is still completely dwarfed by the huge negative […]
Streetsies 2011: The Final Installment
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Tomorrow is the last day of 2011, folks. I wish you a Happier New Year than this one was. We’ve spent the last couple days looking back at some of the bests and worsts of 2011. A brief recap: The hit to transit budgets was the low point of the year, with the high point […]
Streetsies 2011: Bums and Bummers
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On our walk down the memory lane of 2011 so far, we’ve talked about some downers, some inspirations, some triumphs, and some struggles. Check out our first two installments of year-end Streetsie award nostalgia. Here’s some more. Best Obama Plan That Died a Slow and Horrible Death This Year: How to choose, when there were […]
Streetsies 2011: The Local Edition
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Yesterday, we started our year-end 2011 round-up. We lamented transit cuts in places where transit is more important than ever, cheered the successful ballot initiatives that will fund transportation lifelines, took a moment to explore the nuances of some difficult issues, and called out Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin for some hare-brained ideas about the […]
Streetsies 2011: Who’s Naughty, Who’s Nice?
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Thanks for voting in the 2011 Streetsie award poll, where Streetsblog readers weigh in on the good, the bad, and the ugly of the year. Santa knows if you’ve been multimodal, and he knows if you’ve been using cost-effectiveness metrics and low-carbon forms of transportation, so price road use fairly for goodness’ sake! We start […]
2011 Capitol Hill Round-Up: Cast Your Vote for the Streetsie Awards
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It’s been quite a year, Streetsblog readers. The transportation bill is still stalled in Congress, no one can agree on how to fund anything, bike-ped programs survived attack after attack only to get sucker-punched in the Senate bill, and we saw some states and cities make some pretty bad moves when it came to transportation […]
Welcome, Ben Goldman!
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Happy Holidays, everybody! We hope that you have wonderful and exciting plans to celebrate however you celebrate. Before this week is over we’ll be posting our annual poll for the Streetsies, where you get to vote on the bests, the worsts, the most inspiring, and the most insipid of everything transportation in 2011. Once that’s […]
Lawmakers Push to Fund Transit Service During Economic Emergencies
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In October, Reps. Russ Carnahan (D-MO) and Steve LaTourette (R-OH) introduced a bill to allow transit agencies to use federal money to hire bus drivers and pay other operating expenses. Last week, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), along with Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) introduced a Senate companion to the bill [PDF]. Like […]