Recent Streetsblog USA posts about MAP-21

Seven Jiu-Jitsu Moves for Advocates to Use MAP-21 to Their Own Advantage

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 11, 2012 | 2 Comments

OK, truth: Raise your hand if you find federal transportation legislation intimidating and incomprehensible. I thought so. Me too. The problem, as you know, is that it’s enormously important that advocates not only understand the new transportation law, MAP-21, but that they understand it in granular detail so they can find the small opportunities buried […]

How States Are Adapting to MAP-21’s Changes to Bike/Ped Funding

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 28, 2012 | No Comments

The current transportation law dealt a few hard knocks to bicycling and walking programs. One big one was the restructuring of the Transportation Enhancements program into something called Transportation Alternatives, which has to fund more types of projects with less money. The idea is that each state’s TA money will get split in half. Fifty […]

How MAP-21 Pushed Transit to the Edge of Its Own Fiscal Cliff

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 15, 2012 | 2 Comments

Congress has seven weeks to come to some sort of agreement on the so-called “fiscal cliff,” with two of those weeks devoted to photo ops and turkey dinners. The consequences are real: Transportation programs paid out of general fund transfers to the Highway Trust Fund, rather than gas tax receipts, are not exempt from the automatic spending […]

What Has President Obama Done to Improve American Transportation Policy?

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 2, 2012 | 8 Comments

With the election just days away, it’s a good time to reflect on what the Obama administration has done with transportation policy – and what a Romney administration might have in store. Streetsblog does not endorse candidates. This is an overview of their respective records and a look back at what we know of these […]

At NACTO Conference, LaHood Delivers Straight Talk on MAP-21

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 25, 2012 | No Comments

After a rousing opening speech from NYC Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood took the stage at the “Designing Cities” conference of the National Association of City Transportation Officials yesterday. Streetsblog stringer Dani Simons was there and briefed us on the highlights. LaHood said: We’ve made amazing progress in cities in the past […]

FHWA Helps Cities and Towns Land Bike/Ped Funding

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 23, 2012 | No Comments

American cities and towns should get a leg up on using federal funds to make streets safer for biking and walking, thanks to rules enacted yesterday by the Federal Highway Administration. MAP-21, the current transportation law, was passed hurriedly enough that not all the i’s could be dotted and t’s could be crossed — and […]

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