Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Federal Funding

What Would Happen If Washington Cuts Transpo Funding 35 Percent?

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 14, 2012 | 1 Comment

The Republicans have retreated from their insistence on cutting transportation spending by 35 percent to match Highway Trust Fund revenues — for now. But the problem is far from solved. As a reminder of the dangers such a policy presents, the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Eno Center for Transportation put out a new report […]

Boxer Demands Restoration of MAP-21 Funding Levels

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 12, 2012 | No Comments

The MAP-21 transportation bill was just signed two months ago, and its funding levels, agreed to by a difficult and fragile compromise between warring political parties, are already under attack. In Congress, authorization and budgeting are two different processes, run out of different committees. And right now, House budgeters are looking to shave down the $52.6 billion […]

How Highway Spending Could Become as Transparent as Bike/Ped Spending

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 11, 2012 | 3 Comments

“There’s an inverse proportion of the size of a transportation program to the amount of transparency,” says Deron Lovaas of the Natural Resources Defense Council. While anyone can easily find in granular detail anything they would ever want to know about where bike/ped money goes, and they can get a pretty good idea of what’s going […]

How Will Automatic Budget Cuts Affect Transportation?

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 10, 2012 | No Comments

Friday was the Obama administration’s reporting deadline on a slew of scheduled budget cuts set to take effect January 2. I guess the president was busy or something, because his administration blew this deadline. Now they’re promising to have some answers this week. Here’s what they’re tasked with: The administration needs to put some concrete numbers […]

September 1: Deadline for States to Opt Out of Recreational Trails Funding

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 24, 2012 | 1 Comment

The MAP-21 transportation bill in many ways made it tougher for cities and towns to provide safer streets for walking and biking. Projects to build bike lanes and sidewalks now have to compete harder for the tiny bit of funding they’re eligible for. And right now, states are deciding whether or not to “opt out” of the […]

Everything You Wanted to Know About Transit Funds (But Were Afraid to Ask)

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 16, 2012 | 1 Comment

Transit agencies can have a hard time finding the money to expand rail lines and busways. While federal grants for road projects require a 20 percent local match, transit projects need to get 50 percent or more from local funding sources. The byzantine federal funding bureaucracy creates high hurdles, especially for smaller agencies without on-staff expertise in […]

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