Recent Streetsblog USA posts about TIGER

“The Twilight of the Appropriations Process”: House GOP Gets Its Knives Out

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 19, 2013 | No Comments

Constrained by Paul Ryan’s budget and the sequester, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation and HUD passed a $44 billion spending bill for 2014 – 15 percent lower than 2013 enacted levels. The bill contains $15.3 billion in discretionary appropriations for the Department of Transportation, also 15 percent below enacted 2013 levels and amounting to […]

TIGER’s Love Affair With Freight — And Bikes

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 26, 2013 | 4 Comments

This article is the second of a two-part series about how U.S. DOT’s Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery program — TIGER, a discretionary grant program that got its start under the Recovery Act in 2009 — has made transportation planning more strategic, based on a benefit-cost analysis and national goals. Read the first part here, about […]

How TIGER Transformed Transportation Planning — And Lived to Tell About It

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 25, 2013 | 7 Comments

When the buzz about a new, stimulus-funded, discretionary transportation grant program started to circulate in 2009, some environmentalists opposed it. They worried it would be a slush fund for the Federal Highway Administration, used to build unnecessary roads that would aggravate sprawl and pollution. But insiders knew that wasn’t how the new Obama administration would […]

Come and Get It: LaHood Announces Fifth Round of TIGER Grants

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 22, 2013 | No Comments

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told members of Congress last week that U.S. DOT would be announcing TIGER V on Friday. He kept us in suspense through the weekend, but here it is: $474 million for innovative transportation projects that don’t necessarily fit neatly under other funding programs. The projects that will be prioritized under TIGER […]

Sparks Fly as Lawmaker Grills LaHood on Columbia River Crossing Transit

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 16, 2013 | 35 Comments

From the beginning of today’s hearing, Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee made it clear they weren’t going to let Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s last appearance before them be an easy one. While the hearing’s purpose was to examine the department’s budget request, the tough questions LaHood fielded on the budget were nothing compared to […]

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 […]

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