Recent Streetsblog USA posts about U.S. DOT

Quick Hits From U.S. DOT’s TRB Panel

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 1, 2013 | No Comments

We’ve had a busy two weeks since the Transportation Research Board conference, and one thing that’s slipped through the cracks is passing on a few tidbits that came at the end of the TRB panel of U.S. DOT officials on January 16. First, in response to my question about whether the dip in vehicle-miles-traveled had […]

Keeping CNN Honest: 10 Ways Anderson Cooper Got the Rail Story Wrong

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 31, 2013 | 82 Comments

Last Friday, CNN’s Anderson Cooper ran a segment about high-speed rail as part of his “Keeping Them Honest” series. Reporter Drew Griffin did an “exposé” of a Vermont rail project that spent .00006 percent of the federal stimulus money on needed track improvements and came in on time and under budget. Scandal! It amounts to […]

How Will the Next Transpo Secretary Build on Ray LaHood’s Legacy?

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 30, 2013 | 7 Comments

He strung it out long enough, but Ray LaHood has finally announced that he’s resigning as Transportation Secretary. Speculation has been rampant for months about who could replace him, and now it kicks into high gear. Matt Yglesias captured the sentiments of many transportation advocates when he tweeted yesterday, “Ray LaHood was a surprisingly good DOT […]

It’s Official: LaHood Is Out

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 29, 2013 | 10 Comments

After a few false alarms, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has finally come out and said it: He’s leaving the administration. In a letter sent to U.S. DOT staff and contractors this morning, he listed the accomplishments of the last four years: We have put safety front and center with the Distracted Driving Initiative and a rule […]

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

By Darren Flusche | Nov 27, 2012 | 7 Comments

Darren Flusche is the policy director of the League of American Bicyclists. Should the performance of this road… …be measured like this one? 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 […]

Streetsblog Readers Have Spoken: Janette Sadik-Khan For DOT Secretary

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 19, 2012 | 6 Comments

On Friday, we put this question to our readers: Who should be the next Transportation Secretary? And lucky for us, 323 of you had nothing better to do with your weekend than answer our poll. The runaway winner, starting as soon as the polls opened, was Janette Sadik-Khan of New York City DOT. Under her […]

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