Recent Streetsblog USA posts about TIGER

TIGER Funding Gets 20 Percent Boost in Final 2014 Spending Bill

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 14, 2014 | No Comments

We’re less than a third of the way through fiscal year 2014 and we already have a budget! Well, almost — the president still has to sign it. But the House and Senate unveiled the details of the omnibus budget bill yesterday, and just having a complete bill that both parties and both chambers have […]

Budget Deal Is Good News for Transit

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 12, 2013 | 3 Comments

The House of Representatives is preparing to vote on that rarest of Capitol Hill treasures — a bipartisan budget deal. If both houses approve the deal, negotiated by Democratic Senator Patty Murray and Republican Congressman Paul Ryan, it will be the first time since 2010 that Congress has passed a budget. The deal would erase […]

Was TIGER Eliminated in the Shutdown Deal?

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 24, 2013 | 6 Comments

Soon after the government shutdown ended, we heard murmurs that the TIGER grant program for innovative transportation projects had been a casualty of the negotiations. Under the rules of the Office of Management and Budget, any program that was de-funded in either chamber’s bill would be de-funded in the continuing resolution (the temporary budget) until […]

TIGER V a Shot in the Arm for Livable Streets in Cities and Small Towns

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 5, 2013 | 11 Comments

Out of 585 applications, U.S. DOT has chosen 52 transportation projects in 37 states to receive TIGER awards totaling $474 million. The Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery program was originally an element of President Obama’s 2009 stimulus package. Although it hasn’t been reauthorized and many Republicans claim to hate it, funding somehow keeps being appropriated for […]

T4A Calls for Action Against Dreadful House Transpo Budget

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 19, 2013 | 10 Comments

Transportation for America is gearing up for a fight over transit, rail, and TIGER funding, and they’re asking supporters of smart transportation investments to make their voices heard. The new budget put forth by the House of Representatives would zero out funds for TIGER, strip $400 million from Amtrak and raid $500 million from a fund […]

Senate Offers a More Multi-Modal 2014 Transportation Budget Than the House

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 27, 2013 | No Comments

Last week, a House panel envisioned some big cuts to next year’s transportation budget. TIGER and high-speed rail would get nothing, Amtrak would get slashed, and ixnay on all that green “livability” crap. (And that’s practically a quote.) The Senate Appropriations Committee voted this morning on the budget its own transportation subcommittee put together, and the end […]

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