Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bike/Ped

Two-Year Transpo Bill Moves on to Full Senate Without Bike/Ped Protections

By Tanya Snyder | | 7 Comments
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted unanimously this morning to pass a two-year transportation reauthorization bill, moving the bill one step closer to passage by the full Senate. Unlike in the House, where the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has full responsibility for the transportation bill, the Senate splits jurisdiction among several committees, so […]

Two Infrastructure Jobs Bills Die in Senate

By Tanya Snyder | | No Comments
Two competing versions of a transportation-related job creation bill went down yesterday in the Senate. The first, the Rebuild America Jobs Act (S.1769), was a Democratic proposal, modeled on President Obama’s job creation bill, to invest $50 billion for infrastructure and another $10 billion as seed money to create a new national infrastructure bank. Given Republican […]

Feds Put Off Issuing New Trucking Safety Rules

By Tanya Snyder | | 3 Comments
Federal safety officials missed their own deadline Friday for making new rules about dangerous trucks. October 28 was the original deadline by which the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration was supposed to announce new hours-of-service regulations for trucking, but in the end, they gave themselves another month to do it. The pending change is the result […]
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