Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Federal Funding

Has DOT Retained a Bit of Say-So on TIFIA?

By Tanya Snyder | | No Comments
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today that the Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the new, expanded TIFIA loan program is now available [PDF]. The recently-passed MAP-21 transportation reauthorization dramatically expanded TIFIA, bringing the program’s funding up from $122 million to $750 million next year and $1 billion in 2014. Subtract $60 million in 2013 and […]

How State DOTs Got Congress to Grant Their Wish List

By Tanya Snyder | | 1 Comment
Bike and pedestrian funding got slashed. Federal assistance for transit operations was rejected. Even the performance measures – arguably the high point of the recently passed federal transportation bill – are too weak to be very meaningful. For Americans who want federal policy to support safe streets, sustainable transportation, and livable neighborhoods, there were few […]

Buck Up, Reformers: Despite the Hard Knocks, This Bill Is a Step Forward

By David Burwell | | 3 Comments
David Burwell is the director of the Energy and Climate Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was also co-founder and CEO of the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, and a founding co-chair and president of the Surface Transportation Policy Project, a national transportation policy reform coalition.  There is much despair in the transportation reform community about […]

Under New Bill, America’s Transpo Loan Program Ignores National Goals

By Tanya Snyder | | 10 Comments
In the highly polarized and antagonistic transportation bill negotiations, dragged out over the course of almost a year, there was one thing that Democrats and Republicans could agree on: vastly expanding the TIFIA loan program. The Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) program has, since 1998, provided federal credit assistance at favorable interest rates […]
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