Recent Streetsblog USA posts about TIGER

TIGER III Is Grrrrrr-eat News for Transportation Agencies

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 21, 2011 | No Comments

News about an upcoming TIGER III award program is beginning to leak out. The USDOT isn’t planning to release a solicitation for proposals until early summer, but the language in the recently-passed budget bill for this year gives some clues as to what we can expect. TIGER’s survival was one of the happiest surprises of […]

$100 Million for HUD Sustainability Program Survives in This Year’s Budget

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 18, 2011 | 2 Comments

With multiple versions of two years’ worth of federal budgets flying around, some details are still emerging about what’s in and what’s out. At the end of last week we heard that the FY2011 budget, which has been sent to the president for his signature, includes $100 million for the Partnership for Sustainable Communities. According […]

High-Speed Rail Funds Get Slashed in Detailed Budget Plan

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 12, 2011 | 20 Comments

Just when we thought transportation had gotten off relatively easy in the shutdown-aversion budget deal: The House Appropriations Committee has released details [PDF] on the budget agreement between the two houses, including more information on the agreed-to $38.5 billion in cuts. Where we’d heard before that high-speed rail was getting a $1.5 billion haircut, down […]

Grabbing a Thin Reed, Republicans Attack DOT Over Stimulus Grant Process

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 11, 2011 | No Comments

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood likes to remind critics that there have been no reports of “boondoggles” or “sweetheart deals” related to transportation stimulus funds. He’s proud that the money has been put to the uses it was intended for. Two GAO reports being released today largely bolster LaHood’s claims that the funding was allocated based […]

You Can Open Your Eyes Now: Budget Deal Spares Transpo the Worst

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 11, 2011 | No Comments

It’s Monday morning, and the government is open for business. In a last-minute agreement just an hour before the current budget extension was to expire Friday night, Democrats and Republicans avoided the nuclear option of a government shutdown. They cut $38.5 billion from the 2010 budget; $78.5 billion from President Obama’s 2011 budget proposal. Some […]

AP: Will Senate Republicans Send Back Their Own States’ TIGER Money?

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 14, 2011 | No Comments

TIGER grants, announced last year, hang in the balance as the Senate debates the package of House-passed spending cuts. Congress is about to vote on another extension of the current budget, cutting another $2 billion per week. (Up until now, those “cuts” have mostly been budget items from 2010 that the Democrats weren’t going to ask […]

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