Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Federal Funding

Nigeria Strikes For Cheap Fuel

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 10, 2012 | 1 Comment

For the last two days, Nigeria has been on fire with national protests against the government’s move to drop the fuel subsidy that has kept gasoline cheap for years. All of a sudden, on January 1, Nigerians awoke to find that gas prices had gone from 65 naira (40 cents) to at least 141 naira […]

To GOP’s Dismay, DOT Funds Disaster Relief Without Gutting Other Programs

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 9, 2012 | No Comments

The U.S. DOT announced this morning that it’s allocating almost $1.6 billion for repairs to roads and bridges that were damaged in recent floods and storms. If House Republicans had gotten their way, this money would have come out of high-speed rail funds. The House voted in July to transfer over a billion dollars of […]

Ron Paul: Stop Subsidizing Highways, Let “Transits” Flourish

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 5, 2012 | 35 Comments

Before the Iowa caucuses, we wrote briefly about the candidates’ positions on transportation, but we’d missed this tidbit. (Thanks to an anonymous reader for bringing it to our attention.) In this video from 2009, Ron Paul responds to a supporter’s angst about light rail – he wants to oppose anything that was built with government […]

Streetsies 2011: The Final Installment

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 30, 2011 | No Comments

Tomorrow is the last day of 2011, folks. I wish you a Happier New Year than this one was. We’ve spent the last couple days looking back at some of the bests and worsts of 2011. A brief recap: The hit to transit budgets was the low point of the year, with the high point […]

Streetsies 2011: Bums and Bummers

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 29, 2011 | 2 Comments

On our walk down the memory lane of 2011 so far, we’ve talked about some downers, some inspirations, some triumphs, and some struggles. Check out our first two installments of year-end Streetsie award nostalgia. Here’s some more. Best Obama Plan That Died a Slow and Horrible Death This Year: How to choose, when there were […]

McCaskill-Collins: Tax Cuts With a Side of Infrastructure, but Hold the Transit

By Ben Goldman | Dec 13, 2011 | No Comments

Congress has already delayed their holiday recess by a week, and members are hoping another delay won’t be necessary. Among the yet-unfinished business: an extension of the payroll tax cut. House Speaker John Boehner plans to hold a vote today on his bill, which marries an extension of the payroll tax cut to the controversial […]

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