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GOP’s Lunatic Plan for Funding Transportation Draws Nothing But Scorn

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 3, 2014 | 4 Comments

House Republicans announced on Friday the latest in a long line of hare-brained schemes for funding the Highway Trust Fund, which is projected to become insolvent in August. Their ingenious proposal is to pay for transportation by making cuts at the post office. This idea didn’t come from some Tea Party fringe of the GOP. […]

The House GOP’s Campaign Strategy: Do Nothing on Transportation

By Tanya Snyder | May 29, 2014 | 5 Comments

A Senate committee has unanimously approved a transportation bill. Three other Senate committees are holding hearings on the bill. But over in the House? Crickets. At a press conference last week, former transportation secretary — and former House Republican — Ray LaHood scolded his old colleagues for failing to take action. He said there was […]

Will Julián Castro Follow Shaun Donovan’s Smart Growth Path at HUD?

By Katie Pearce | May 23, 2014 | 3 Comments

Losing Shaun Donovan at the helm of HUD was a blow for urbanists. This afternoon President Obama formally announced the nomination of San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro to replace Donovan as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. What will the transition mean for the agency, which under Donovan championed smart growth and the integration of […]

Why the Senate Transportation Bill Will Devastate Transit

By Tanya Snyder | May 22, 2014 | 21 Comments

Transit officials lined up today to make clear that holding transit spending at current levels — as the Senate’s transportation authorization bill does — will put transit systems at risk of falling further into dangerous disrepair. The backlog for transit maintenance and replacement stands “conservatively” at $86 billion, according to the Federal Transit Administration. That […]

8 Takeaways From the Bike League’s Study of Cyclist Fatalities

By Angie Schmitt | May 22, 2014 | 61 Comments

When someone is killed while riding a bike in the United States, the most follow-up you’ll usually see is a newspaper article or two. There’s rarely a trial or a detailed examination of what went wrong. The federal government tracks bike fatalities, but only to a limited extent. We don’t have great data about the […]

Senate Transportation Bill Moves Forward With a Few Key Changes

By Tanya Snyder | May 15, 2014 | No Comments

The Senate’s proposal for the next transportation reauthorization took another step forward today with the unanimous approval of the Environment and Public Works Committee. The bill the members sent to the full Senate was slightly different from the one that was unveiled Monday night. The changes include [PDF]: An amendment introduced by Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) […]

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