Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Federal Funding

Senate Unlikely to Challenge House Cuts to MAP-21 Budget

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 8, 2013 | No Comments

If you were hoping the Senate would swoop in and save the day after the House voted to cut $785 million from the transportation budget, you might be disappointed. Politico’s Burgess Everett reports that Senate Appropriations Chair Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) isn’t planning to present an alternative transportation budget proposal. Mikulski is considering rolling several appropriations bills […]

Congress Comes to the Bike Summit (and the Bike Summit Goes to Congress)

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 7, 2013 | 2 Comments

Tuesday morning, Rep. Earl Blumenauer took his usual place behind the podium at the National Bike Summit. (He never misses a Bike Summit.) “I’m coming up this morning and smiling at someone going past me on the bike lane on Pennsylvania Avenue,” Blumenauer said. “Remember four years ago, I talked about risking my life on […]

Bike Summit: With a Seat at the Table, Cyclists Need to Master the Etiquette

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 6, 2013 | 2 Comments

When you talk to policy-makers, do you complain about how bicyclists lost out in the last transportation reauthorization and demand that cycling get its “fair share” of funding? Do you tell them that more and more people are riding bikes, and maybe they ought to try it too? If so, you’ve been doing it all […]

Shuster Shows His Thoughtful Side, Boxer Heaps Praise at AASHTO Conference

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 1, 2013 | No Comments

In a sense, there’s not much to say about the joint appearance at the AASHTO conference yesterday of House Transportation Committee Chair Bill Shuster and Senate EPW Chair Barbara Boxer. They thanked AASHTO for all its help getting MAP-21 passed. They addressed the big question of how to raise revenues without actually making any proposals. […]

Sequester Would Cut New Starts By $100M, Could Trigger FTA Furloughs

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 28, 2013 | 2 Comments

The consequences of the near-certain sequester for aviation have been well publicized by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s recent media blitz, but less well-known are the effects for surface transportation. LaHood broke that silence in a memo to department staff earlier this week and released yesterday by Politico, warning that even after taking measures like “instituting hiring freezes, cutting contracts, […]

Sequestration Week: Will Congress Find a Solution By Friday? Does It Matter?

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 25, 2013 | 1 Comment

Welcome to Sequestration Week. Congress has until Friday to strike a deal that would avoid a set of dreaded automatic budget cuts. The president is blaming the crisis on House Republicans, who are in turn laying blame on Senate Democrats. Unlike any number of previous budget crises, no one really thinks that Washington can pull […]

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