Recent Streetsblog USA posts about U.S. Senate

EPW Wraps Up Bipartisan Negotiations

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 19, 2011 | No Comments

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee just sent out its outline of their transportation reauthorization bill (which many of us found online hours ago.) In the statement, Ranking Republican James Inhofe (R-OK) said: Today I am pleased join Senator Boxer to announce that we have completed bipartisan negotiations on the highway policies that will be […]

What Bipartisanship Hath Wrought: Zilch for Bike-Ped in Senate Bill Outline

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 19, 2011 | 7 Comments

Update 7/20: It has come to our attention that the complete draft of the Senate bill will include a hard commitment to bike-ped programs. Senate staff tells us that Sen. Barbara Boxer worked hard and was able to maintain her priorities in the bill, including dedicated federal support for bike infrastructure. More details will come out […]

Desperately Seeking: One Senate Transportation Bill, Preferably Bipartisan

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 15, 2011 | 2 Comments

Rumors were flying yesterday that a rollout of the Senate transportation bill, or at least a significant announcement about its status, was imminent. Staffers were locked away in meetings, finalizing the last details – or so we hoped. Some said that Democrats and Republicans were still trying to work out some significant issues, and that […]

Bring Transit to Senior Citizens, or Bring Seniors to Transit?

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 30, 2011 | 5 Comments

You don’t hear me say this often, but here goes: Randal O’Toole of the Cato Institute made a good point. At yesterday’s Senate Banking Committee hearing on transit access for senior citizens and people with disabilities, the sprawl-boosting O’Toole posed this question: “Should transit come to the people or should people come to transit?” The […]

Expect Two (Radically Different) Reauthorization Proposals Soon

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 24, 2011 | 2 Comments

The Environment and Public Works Committee is getting ready to introduce their transportation reauthorization bill, according to reports by the Journal of Commerce. The committee has, shrewdly, worked closely with Finance Committee Chair (and EPW leader) Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) on a way to pay for the bill, in order to avoid a situation like […]

25 Senators Demand Robust Transit Funding

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 23, 2011 | 14 Comments

In a letter to Finance Committee leaders [PDF], 25 senators today urged adequate funding for mass transit in the next transportation authorization bill. The letter notes that public transportation systems find themselves in a budgetary crisis just as more and more people, driven by $4/gallon gas, are seeking out transportation options. During the worst economic […]

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