Recent Streetsblog USA posts about 2009 Transportation Bill

What Voinovich Wants From the White House: A New Politics for Transport

By Elana Schor | Feb 25, 2010 | 1 Comment

Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH), a longtime supporter of quick action on a new federal transportation bill, helped give Democrats a major victory this week when he voted for the Senate’s jobs measure after securing a promise for transportation votes in the upper chamber this year. Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) (Photo: CNN) But viewing Voinovich’s move […]

Voinovich Secures Dem Promise to Hold a Senate Vote on Transpo in 2010

By Elana Schor | Feb 23, 2010 | 3 Comments

Compelling infrastructure news out of the Senate last night: The long-delayed successor to the 2005 federal transportation law could come to a vote sooner than the spring 2011 timetable sought by the Obama administration, thanks to a promise secured by Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) in exchange for his vote in favor of the Democratic jobs […]

Alongside LaHood in L.A., Boxer Talks Timing for the Next Transport Bill

By Damien Newton | Feb 22, 2010 | 1 Comment

Senate environment committee chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA), at podium, with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood at her right, joined Metro bus repair staff and transit officials on Friday. (Photo: LA Streetsblog via Flickr) Friday was billed as a day to discuss the next long-term federal transportation legislation, but the day turned in to a stirring defense […]

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 […]

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 […]

LaHood Talks Budget: “Very Bright” Future for Infrastructure Fund

By Elana Schor | Feb 1, 2010 | No Comments

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said today that he sees "very bright" prospects for congressional approval of the Obama administration’s $4 billion National Infrastructure Innovation and Finance Fund, the new iteration of the long-discussed National Infrastructure Bank proposal. Transportation Secretary LaHood, at left, with the president. (Photo: NYT) "There is a great deal of interest in […]

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