Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Federal Funding

Houston Planners Will Spend All Their Federal Air Quality Funding on Cars

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 31, 2011 | No Comments

It looks like the Houston region still has a long way to go in balancing the needs of cyclists and pedestrians with those of drivers. The region’s Transportation Policy Council came down largely on the side of auto infrastructure Friday in deciding how to allocate tens of millions of dollars in federal funding. On the […]

Strange Bedfellows Unite for Infrastructure Investment, Financing Tools

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 31, 2011 | 7 Comments

The “Tom and Rich Show” continued on Capitol Hill yesterday. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue and AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka joined up for yet another event to show that business and labor, which don’t agree on anything, agree on a major infusion of federal investment for infrastructure. They weren’t the only strange bedfellows there. […]

House Transportation Committee Rejects Obama’s 2012 Budget Request

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 22, 2011 | 1 Comment

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is having its say about the president’s ambitious – and unpaid-for – budget request for transportation. “The [president’s] proposal assumes a ‘placeholder revenue increase’ of $435 billion over a 10-year period but does not identify how to pay for the revenue increase,” says the committee’s “Views and Estimates” document, […]

House Passes Three-Week Budget Extension

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 15, 2011 | No Comments

The House just voted 271-158 to extend the FY2010 for three more weeks while the two houses of Congress try to reconcile their respective ideas about spending cuts. It wasn’t a party-line vote: 54 Republicans voted against the resolution and 85 Democrats voted for it. The bill cuts $6 billion over its three-week life. If […]

Cyclists Descend on Capitol Hill, Ask Lawmakers to Preserve Bike Funding

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 11, 2011 | 4 Comments

Every year, the cyclists that gather in Washington for the National Bike Summit meet with hundreds of Congressional offices to ask for expanded bike funding. This year, they’re just asking lawmakers not to cut it. With an anti-spending mood prevailing inside the Beltway, bicycling advocates are trying to be realistic. “We haven’t forgotten that there’s […]

Boxer Pushes LaHood on Financing for Transportation

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 10, 2011 | 10 Comments

Senator Barbara Boxer got down to brass tacks on transportation funding in a committee hearing yesterday, even as DOT Secretary Ray LaHood remained vague on how to pay for the president’s ambitious proposal. Boxer said she’s not in favor of raising the gas tax, but she’d like it to be indexed to inflation. “We don’t […]

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