Recent Streetsblog USA posts about U.S. DOT

Big Transit News: Bush-Era Rule Tossed, Enviro Benefits on the Table

By Elana Schor | Jan 13, 2010 | 6 Comments

Transportation reformers and members of Congress have long clamored for changes to the federal government’s major transit grant program, otherwise known as "New Starts," and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood answered today with an announcement of sweeping changes in the works. LaHood made his announcement today at the Transportation Research Board conference. (Photo: AP) The first […]

State DOTs: We Back National Transport Goals — If We Get to Write Them

By Elana Schor | Jan 13, 2010 | No Comments

Congressional efforts to set national goals for the American transportation system are stalled for now, but the U.S. DOT said today that it is preparing for an eventual transition to a world where performance targets are the norm for transit, roads, bridges, and ports. (Photo: UVA) "National goals should be set by U.S. DOT […]

Obama Administration Working on Its Own Six-Year Transportation Bill

By Elana Schor | Jan 11, 2010 | No Comments

The annual powwow of thousands of transportation workers, planners, and wonks that’s known as the Transportation Research Board (TRB) conference kicked off in the capital yesterday with a candid admission from some senior U.S. DOT officials: reorienting American transport planning to accommodate the overlap with housing and environmental sustainability is proving pretty difficult. U.S. DOT […]

The 2009 Capitol Hill Streetsies: And the Nominees Are …

By Elana Schor | Dec 29, 2009 | 1 Comment

The year-end Streetsie Awards are a time-honored tradition at Streetsblog — check out New York’s first round of honorees, hot off the presses today — and Capitol Hill certainly has provided plenty of material. Without further ado, here are the nominees for Washington’s brightest and bleakest moments of 2009. Winners will be announced on New […]

Four Finalists For White House High-Speed Rail Funding?

By Elana Schor | Dec 18, 2009 | 2 Comments

That was the eyebrow-raising suggestion reported by the Orlando Sentinel today after Rep. John Mica (R-FL) helped mark the beginning of central Florida’s commuter-rail era, made possible by landmark legislation signed into state law this week. Rep. John Mica (FL), senior Republican on the House transportation committee (Photo: Orlando Sentinel) The Sentinel quoted Mica naming […]

Battle Heats Up Over Pennsylvania Tolling, With National Implications

By Elana Schor | Dec 18, 2009 | 9 Comments

For more than two years, Pennsylvania transportation planners have sought federal permission to make I-80 one of only three interstates in America approved for tolling. Pennsylvania’s I-80 would be only the third existing interstate in the U.S. to have tolls. (Photo: PennLive.com) If the Federal Highway Administration okays tolls on I-80 — and local reports […]

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