Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Federal Funding

Baucus Adds Transit Tax Benefit to Senate Transpo Bill

By Ben Goldman | Feb 7, 2012 | No Comments

The Senate Finance Committee is currently marking up what lawmakers have christened the “Highway Investment, Job Creation and Economic Growth Act of 2012,” the final component of the Senate’s two-year transportation bill. This portion of the bill, put together by committee chair Max Baucus (D-MT), is responsible for the “pay-for” — identifying approximately $13 billion […]

Schumer Amendment: Make Transit Tax Benefit Equal to Parking Benefit

By Ben Goldman | Feb 6, 2012 | No Comments

The last piece of the Senate’s two-year transportation reauthorization proposal will be marked up by the Finance Committee tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. The committee was tasked with finding approximately $12 billion to bridge the projected shortfall of the Highway Trust Fund over the life of the bill. So far, according to a summary released by Chairman […]

Rangel: House GOP Has No Idea Where Transit Funding Would Come From

By Ben Goldman | Feb 6, 2012 | 1 Comment

Today at Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan, four members of New York’s congressional delegation joined the head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in decrying House GOP efforts to drastically alter how the federal government supports transit in cities. Under the House’s plan, instead of receiving a roughly 20 percent cut of the federal gas tax, […]

Should the Feds Fund City Transpo Projects? Blumenauer and Shuster Discuss

By Ben Goldman | Jan 26, 2012 | 2 Comments

If the Transportation Research Board annual meeting were a music festival, the headline act would have been yesterday’s panel of six secretaries of transportation, including Ray LaHood (the incumbent) and Alan Boyd (the first to ever hold the post). As headliners go, they were a bit of a downer: They told a standing-room-only crowd that […]

Is Doing Nothing a Politically Acceptable Way to Pay For Transportation?

By Ben Goldman | Jan 24, 2012 | 3 Comments

This week marks the Transportation Research Board’s 91st annual meeting, a time when thousands of experts and professionals from across the country descend on the nation’s capital to share their ideas, discoveries, theories, and fears with their colleagues in the transportation field. This year, falling in line with political rhetoric from both parties that ties […]

Do Brookings and Heritage Agree on Public-Private Partnerships?

By Ben Goldman | Jan 20, 2012 | No Comments

When government types start to talk about expanding infrastructure, you’re likely to hear the phrase “public-private partnership” thrown around a lot. PPPs (or P3s, or 3Ps) are one of the “innovative financing tools” that policymakers love to hold up as a way to expedite expensive infrastructure projects that taxpayers want but aren’t willing to pay […]

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