Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Federal Stimulus

As Yet Another House Proposal Dies In Utero, Boehner Looks to Senate Bill

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 8, 2012 | No Comments

The original six-year House transportation bill had funding levels that were too low, so House leaders axed that and came up with a fairy tale bill in which oil drilling would pay for higher transportation spending levels. Then they decided to kick transit funding out of that bill, which didn’t fly. So they thought about replacing the whole kit […]

Is Transpo Funding Fundamentally a PR Problem? Five Ex-DOT Chiefs Discuss

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 2, 2011 | 3 Comments

How can you convince Americans that transportation is important enough to invest in? That’s the question that brought together five former U.S. Transportation Secretaries this week at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. James Burnley was deputy secretary and then secretary under President Reagan. He took the position that “75 percent” of the public “gives […]

Stimulus-Backed Programs Struggle to Stay Alive After Funds Run Out

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 29, 2011 | 2 Comments

In an old supermarket space in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, a diverse community of bicycle aficionados are getting greasy. Young and old, Latino and white, they are truing wheels and replacing cables and adjusting brakes in L.A.’s newest, and completely unplanned, bike co-op. Bici Libre, as it’s called, got its start when the […]

Senators Hammer LaHood for Specifics on Funding His Transpo Plan

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 3, 2011 | 2 Comments

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood played defense – and dodgeball – this morning as members of the Senate Budget Committee grilled him on how he proposed to pay for the administration’s new transportation agenda. Secretary Ray LaHood indicates how many details he’s going to give Congress on how to fund the transportation budget proposal (Photo: AP) […]

SGA: Transportation Funding Pays Big Dividends Only If Invested Wisely

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 7, 2011 | 2 Comments

In just the last month, several reports have quantified, in various ways, how investing in transportation infrastructure pays off in jobs and economic health. Now Smart Growth America is out with new research showing that it’s not enough to plunk down a bunch of money and expect miracles. You’ve got to do it right. Doing […]

NTPP: Infrastructure Investment Will Only Boost the Economy If Done Right

By Mitch Wander and Tanya Snyder | Jan 24, 2011 | 1 Comment

At the federal level, we’re nearly flat out of transportation money and spending most of what’s left to stimulate highway construction jobs. It’s a double whammy that could present a bleak future for federally-funded transportation projects. A new report by the Bipartisan Policy Center’s National Transportation Policy Project (NTPP) challenges the country to envision a […]

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