Recent Streetsblog USA posts about U.S. DOT

TIGER Grant Winners to be Announced By February 17

By Elana Schor | Feb 5, 2010 | 1 Comment

The winners of $1.5 billion in merit-based transportation stimulus grants through the program known as TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) will be announced on or perhaps even before February 17, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood confirmed this week. A rendering of Phoenix’s SkyTrain, which has applied for TIGER aid to link light rail with the […]

Two Troubling Transportation Numbers for the Obama Administration

By Elana Schor | Feb 4, 2010 | 1 Comment

Today brought news of two grim transportation numbers from the Obama administration: 2 and $53 million. Atlanta’s Metro won a share of the emissions-cutting transit grants that the White House proposes to cut next year. (Photo: Atlanta Metblogs) The first figure is the percentage of federal transport stimulus contracts that have gone to disadvantaged and […]

DeLauro Questions Obama Budget’s Infrastructure Fund Proposal

By Elana Schor | Feb 4, 2010 | No Comments

Despite brought support for the concept of a National Infrastructure Bank (NIB) to help pay for major improvements to America’s built environment, including transportation, significant uncertainty still surrounds the questions of how the bank would work as well as what it would fund. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) (Photo: America2050 via Flickr) As Streetsblog Capitol Hill […]

A High-Speed Rail Reality Check for Texas

By Elana Schor | Feb 3, 2010 | 5 Comments

Despite data backing up the White House’s assertion that politics played no role in high-speed rail decision-making, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) — waging a re-election bid against a GOP primary challenger as well as the Democratic mayor of Houston — wasn’t shy about complaining after his state received less than one-hundredth of the $1.8 […]

Miami, Sacramento, Boston Transit Projects Still Seeking Federal Approval

By Elana Schor | Feb 3, 2010 | 3 Comments

Amid the good vibes yesterday over new federal funding agreements for transit projects in New York City, Oakland, Hartford, and other metro areas, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) also offered a spell of bad news to a few local proposals that are still working to meet the agency’s standards for aid. An extension of Miami’s […]

How Can Transit Backers Sway Conservatives? Oberstar Joins the Debate

By Elana Schor | Feb 2, 2010 | 3 Comments

In the years before partisan warfare became the norm in Washington, transportation tended to unite both ends of the ideological spectrum. Can rationality return to infrastructure policy debates that have become subsumed by culture clashes between cyclists and drivers, urbanists and suburbanites — and, of course, Democrats and Republicans? Highways and transit, side by side […]

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