Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Infrastructure

Paved With Good Intentions

By Charles Marohn | Apr 30, 2012 | No Comments

Cross-posted from Strong Towns blog. How can a country that is so wealthy be in such enormous debt? How can a country that can build such marvelous transportation systems not find the money to sustain them? How can a people that enjoyed decades of unrivaled economic hegemony — staggering levels of growth beyond anything seen […]

Five Ex-Secretaries Map Out a Communications Strategy For Transportation

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 24, 2012 | 3 Comments

If 80 percent of the American people agree that federal infrastructure investment will create jobs, and two-thirds say better infrastructure is important, why is the call for a robust transportation bill being made in whispers? And why is Congress already two and a half years late in producing one? There are many political reasons — […]

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 […]

Who Said It: “Let’s Be Really Bold… in Developing Maglev Trains”

By Ben Goldman | Dec 20, 2011 | 3 Comments

Match the quotation to its Speaker (hint, hint!): “Let’s go ahead and be really bold, and go head-to-head with the Chinese in developing and implementing maglev trains that move at 280 to 300, 320 miles an hour. […] You cannot talk about American national security in the long run without a fundamental redevelopment of this […]

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 […]

Two Infrastructure Jobs Bills Die in Senate

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 4, 2011 | No Comments

Two competing versions of a transportation-related job creation bill went down yesterday in the Senate. The first, the Rebuild America Jobs Act (S.1769), was a Democratic proposal, modeled on President Obama’s job creation bill, to invest $50 billion for infrastructure and another $10 billion as seed money to create a new national infrastructure bank. Given Republican […]

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