Recent Streetsblog USA posts about U.S. DOT

TIGER III Requests Exceed Available Funding 27 to 1

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 15, 2011 | 5 Comments

In its third incarnation, USDOT’s TIGER program continues to be overwhelmingly popular. The deadline to apply for TIGER III grants passed late last month, but not before 828 applications were received from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and US territories. Applications for this $527 million program totaled $14.1 billion, guaranteeing the selection process […]

Deputy Secretary Roy Kienitz Calls It Quits At USDOT

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 14, 2011 | 3 Comments

First Ray LaHood tells us he’s not sticking around as Transportation Secretary much longer. Now his number two, Roy Kienitz, has announced he’s gonna bounce too — and he’s not even going to wait around as long as LaHood. Kienitz will be out by next month. Politico’s Morning Transportation reporters got the dish in Kienitz’s […]

Feds Put Off Issuing New Trucking Safety Rules

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 1, 2011 | 3 Comments

Federal safety officials missed their own deadline Friday for making new rules about dangerous trucks. October 28 was the original deadline by which the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration was supposed to announce new hours-of-service regulations for trucking, but in the end, they gave themselves another month to do it. The pending change is the result […]

Why Create an Infrastructure Bank When We Could Just Expand TIFIA?

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 28, 2011 | No Comments

There’s been a lot of adulation heaped upon the TIFIA loan program lately. Both houses of Congress are ready to increase funding for the program nine times over, from $100 million to $1 billion a year – despite warnings from outside groups that there may not be enough eligible projects to use up all that […]

Who Killed Transit on the New Tappan Zee? Feds and NY State DOT Won’t Say.

By Noah Kazis | Oct 24, 2011 | No Comments

Call it the mystery of the missing transit. One of New York state’s biggest transit projects, in the works for nearly a decade, was canceled overnight and no one will explain why, or even claim responsibility for the decision. Two weeks ago, each of the four alternatives for replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge, which spans […]

Mica Won’t Say Where Transpo Funding Will Come From; LaHood Defends TE

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 14, 2011 | 2 Comments

House Transportation Committee Chair John Mica (R-FL) said this morning that getting permission from Republican leadership to find more revenues to fund the transportation bill was a “major breakthrough” but still won’t say where the money will come from. Mica told an audience at a Washington Post-sponsored forum on transportation that passing yet another extension […]

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