Recent Streetsblog USA posts about U.S. DOT

How the Federal TIGER Program Revived a Cleveland Neighborhood

By Angie Schmitt | May 15, 2014 | 9 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, […]

Dueling Forecasts: Does the Energy Dept. Know Something U.S. DOT Doesn’t?

By Tony Dutzik | Apr 16, 2014 | 2 Comments

Tony Dutzik is a senior policy analyst with the Frontier Group. This article was originally posted on the Frontier Group’s blog. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) — the data and analytical wing of the Energy Department — is out today with a fascinating analysis of changing driving trends and their implications for America’s energy future. The […]

Sec. Foxx: Bicycle Infrastructure Can Be a “Ladder of Opportunity”

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 5, 2014 | No Comments

This morning, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx’s blog post is all about bicycling. He opens by touting the complete streets policy he helped implement in Charlotte (it passed before he was mayor) and the city’s bike-share system — the largest in the Southeast. His post follows on his speech yesterday to the National Bike Summit, which […]

Let’s Do the Time Warp Again: U.S. DOT Fails to Get Travel Forecasting Right

By Phineas Baxandall and Tony Dutzik | Mar 3, 2014 | 34 Comments

The U.S. Department of Transportation seems to be stuck in a bizarre time warp. For nine years in a row Americans have decreased their average driving miles. Yet U.S. DOT’s most recent biennial report to Congress on the state of the nation’s transportation system, released last Friday, forecasts that total vehicle miles will increase between […]

The Revolving Door Spins Again: LaHood Joins DLA Piper

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 24, 2014 | 1 Comment

When former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced earlier this month that he was going to co-chair Building America’s Future, I thought, “well that seems like a good place for him, but it’s not going to make his wife happy.” Mrs. LaHood has famously been needling him for years to get out of public office and […]

What If There Was No Highway, Transit, or Rail Agency — Just U.S. DOT?

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 16, 2014 | 5 Comments

“Highway people like highways, transit people like transit, rail people like rail,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said yesterday at the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board. “But our transportation system should be greater than the sum of its parts.” Foxx wasn’t the first to lament the atomization of the various modes at the federal level. […]

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