Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Local Control

Bi-partisan Senate Bill Would Give Locals More Say Over Transpo Spending

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 22, 2014 | 9 Comments

When it comes to transportation funding, cities and towns occupy the bottom of the totem pole. The vast majority of federal transportation money goes to states, to the exclusion of local governments. That means state DOTs get tens of billions to spend on highways each year, while mayors and local agencies have to scrounge for […]

371 City Leaders Ask Boxer For More Local Control Over Bike/Ped Money

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 25, 2014 | No Comments

Last week, 371 mayors and other city leaders wrote a letter [PDF] to Sen. Barbara Boxer, chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, in support of local control over transportation dollars for bike and pedestrian projects. About two-thirds of the signatories are mayors, from cities as big as Philadelphia and Los Angeles and as […]

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Calls for More Local Control of Transpo Funds

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 23, 2014 | 4 Comments

We normally leave the Bill de Blasio coverage to the Streetsblog NYC crew, but the new mayor made some remarks today at the U.S. Conference of Mayors that everyone should take note of. At the conference’s plenary session, de Blasio made reference, without really naming it, to the single biggest demand of transportation reformers going […]