Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Reauthorization

4 Things to Know as Transportation Bill Negotiations Heat Up

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 18, 2015 | 10 Comments

Lawmakers in Washington are just beginning their latest attempt to craft the first long-term transportation bill in roughly a decade. The current bill expires in just a few months, on May 31, but in Congress that’s an eternity. While it’s a long way from go time, the contours of the debate are starting to become […]

Talking Headways: You’ve Got to Fight for Your Right to Party Politics

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 13, 2014 | 1 Comment

Has the stupor worn off yet? Election Day was last Tuesday, and we’ll be living with the results for years. But Beth Osborne, a former Hill staffer and U.S. DOT official now at Transportation for America, says the changes on the Hill are no big deal: Nothing was getting done anyway. So Beth, Jeff, and […]

Don’t Look Now, But the House Amtrak Bill Actually Has Some Good Ideas

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 16, 2014 | 84 Comments

Tomorrow, the House Transportation Committee will consider a bill that changes the nation’s policies on passenger rail. The proposal, while it includes some cuts, is a departure from the senseless vendetta many House Republicans have waged against Amtrak in the past. The National Association of Railroad Passengers, NARP, says the plan contains “commonsense regulatory and […]

Why the Next Fight Over Bike/Ped Funding Won’t Be Like the Last

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 11, 2014 | No Comments

When Congress passed a two-year transportation bill in 2012, active transportation advocates had to scrape and claw for every penny of funding for walking and biking programs. When the dust settled, it seemed they would have to repeat the same old battles when the law expired. Right now the current law is up for renewal […]

Congress Hits the Snooze Button on Transpo Funding Until May

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 1, 2014 | 8 Comments

Someone had to cave and last night, it was the Senate. The upper chamber had fought as long as it could to adjust the House transportation bill so it wouldn’t expire when the GOP controls both chambers of Congress. But senators were never willing to actually let the Highway Trust Fund go broke. U.S. DOT would […]

Time’s Up: 6 Things to Know About Today’s Transpo Showdown (UPDATED)

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 31, 2014 | No Comments

UPDATE 2:40 p.m.: The House has rejected the Senate amendment, as expected. Today is the House of Representatives’ last day in session before departing for an August recess full of photo ops and electioneering in their districts. The Senate will stick around DC for one more day before going home. Before that happens, the two […]

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