Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Federal Funding

House, Senate Take Different Paths to Prop Up Transportation Funding

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 10, 2014 | No Comments

This morning, the House Ways and Means Committee passed its plan to prop up the Highway Trust Fund — which pays for transit and bike/ped infrastructure in addition to roads — until May 2015. A few hours later, the Senate Finance Committee approved a plan of its own, with no deadline attached. Sens. Ron Wyden […]

House Proposes 8-Month Transpo Bill In Hopes for a Republican Senate in 2015

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 9, 2014 | 2 Comments

While a six-year Senate transportation bill languishes in partisan purgatory, the House Ways and Means Committee has proposed an eight-month patch that would backfill the Highway Trust Fund until May 31, 2015. That would punt the transportation bill debate until a new Congress takes over — one that’s expected to have Republican majorities in both […]

With No Transport Funding Fix, USDOT to Cut Payments to States Next Month

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 2, 2014 | 17 Comments

State transportation departments could see the federal funding they receive pared back as early as a few weeks from now if Congress doesn’t come up with a transportation funding solution. A “cash management plan” to deal with the impending shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund — which actually pays for transit, biking, and walking projects […]

FHWA: Bike-Ped Investments Pay Off By Cutting Traffic and Improving Health

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 26, 2014 | 10 Comments

Nine years after launching a program to measure the impact of bike and pedestrian investments in four communities, the Federal Highway Administration credits the program with increasing walking trips by nearly a quarter and biking trips by nearly half, while averting 85 million miles of driving since its inception. In 2005, the FHWA’s Nonmotorized Transportation […]

Senator Pat Toomey Fights to Spare America From Safe Streets

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 25, 2014 | 4 Comments

You know the Senate is close to passing transportation legislation when someone introduces a hare-brained amendment to ban bike and pedestrian programs. Sen. Ron Wyden, as promised, yesterday introduced a bill to extend MAP-21 and the Highway Trust Fund’s authority by three months. It also transfers some money from the general fund into the HTF to keep […]

“Rally for Roads” Demands Transportation Funding Fix

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 11, 2014 | 1 Comment

This morning, the road construction industry rallied in front of the U.S. Capitol to demand that Congress invest in infrastructure. But some of the best-known transportation reformers in Washington were also on hand for an event that didn’t focus on one mode over others. The overriding message of the day was simple: Don’t let transportation […]

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