Recent Streetsblog USA posts about U.S. DOT

Connecticut Lawmakers Livid at the State’s Transport Stimulus Shutout

By Elana Schor | Feb 19, 2010 | No Comments

Connecticut was not alone in its failure to win any funding from the Obama administration’s competition for $1.5 billion in TIGER stimulus grants, but its Democratic members of Congress are not nursing their wounds quietly. Outlined in purple are improvements to Stamford’s Harbor Point neighborhood that would have been funded by TIGER grants. (Image: ConnDOT) […]

Rail Expert Reutter: White House Misfired on High-Speed Rail Stimulus

By Elana Schor | Feb 18, 2010 | 12 Comments

Mark Reutter, author of the industrial tome Making Steel and a veteran editor of Railroad History, can safely be called an expert on the train industry. And in a new memo for the Progressive Policy Institute, he is issuing a warning to the Obama administration on its high-profile push for high-speed rail. California’s high-speed rail […]

Who Lost Out in the Bid for a Piece of TIGER Transportation Stimulus?

By Elana Schor | Feb 17, 2010 | 3 Comments

With more than $56 billion in applications submitted for just $1.5 billion in available funding, the Obama administration’s TIGER grants — short for Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery — was one of the stimulus law’s most hotly contested programs. So it’s no surprise that the process resulted in its share of losers as well as […]

Freight Rail, Streetcars Are Tops in Stimulus’ TIGER Chase

By Elana Schor | Feb 17, 2010 | 6 Comments

The Obama administration today announced the winners of $1.5 billion stimulus in highly competitive stimulus grants under the program known as Transportation Investments Generating Economic Recovery, or TIGER. Southeastern and midwestern freight rail projects were the day’s biggest winners, with urban streetcar projects also making a big splash. Freight rail in Chicago, where the CREATE […]

Boxer, LaHood Coming to L.A. to Discuss Federal Transportation Bill

By Damien Newton | Feb 10, 2010 | No Comments

As transportation reformers continue to wait for the Senate to join the House in offering a new federal transportation bill, Senate environment committee chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will hold a town-hall meeting at the headquarters of L.A.’s Metro transit authority on Friday, February 19. Boxer and LaHood get on the […]

EPA and HUD Make Big Investments in Sustainable Development

By Elana Schor | Feb 8, 2010 | No Comments

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are making significant progress on their joint effort, with the U.S. DOT, to connect cleaner transportation options with affordable housing and denser urban development. A future commuter rail station along Boston’s Fairmount Line, one of five areas selected for EPA sustainable […]

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