Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Federal Stimulus

GOP Demands a Stop to Stim Spending. What Will It Mean for Rail Projects?

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 1, 2010 | 15 Comments

The top Republican currently on the Appropriations Committee wants to take back stimulus funds promised to states and localities for much-needed infrastructure programs, including more than $6 billion in transportation funding. High-speed rail projects would take an especially big hit under the plan. Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA) has introduced H.R. 6403, the American Recovery and Reinvestment […]

Bike-Ped Funding Dips as Stimulus Spending Slows

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 1, 2010 | 2 Comments

Via the League of American Bicyclists, new information is out about how much the feds are spending on bike-ped projects. While federal funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects is down a bit from last year’s all-time high, it still comes in at more than a billion dollars. A third of the money is from the American […]

Republicans Line Up to Oppose Obama’s Transportation Proposal

By Adam Voiland | Sep 8, 2010 | 9 Comments

The critical multi-year transportation bill, which lawmakers have sidelined since last summer as they’ve quarreled about how to pay for it, looks to be back on the agenda after President Obama’s pugnacious Labor Day speech, in which he called on Congress to ramp up investment in transportation. The broad outline of Obama’s plan calls for […]

Federal Bike-Ped Funding Sets New High, With Much More Room to Grow

By Ben Fried | Jun 17, 2010 | No Comments

Graph: FHWA [PDF] Federal funding for pedestrian and bicycle projects reached a new high last year, according to a report released yesterday by the Federal Highway Administration. In terms of dollars, federal investment in walking and biking more than doubled compared to the previous high, set in 2007, thanks largely to an infusion of $400 […]

Obama Administration Helps Jump-Start Two New D.C. Housing Upgrades

By Elana Schor | May 10, 2010 | No Comments

The federal government has long taken heat for giving short shrift to cities, and the Obama administration — which recently lost its urban affairs chief after months of lackluster progress — is no exception. But two projects getting underway in the U.S. capital provide evidence that, slowly but surely, federal funding is making its way […]

New Analysis: 59% of Road Stimulus Went to Repair, 33% to New Capacity

By Elana Schor | May 4, 2010 | 4 Comments

(Photo: DMI Blog) In the first year of the Obama administration’s economic stimulus law, 59 percent of its $27 billion in transportation formula funds went to projects that preserve existing roads, while 33 percent was used to build new pavement, according to an analysis by the advocacy group Smart Growth America (SGA). The new data, […]

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