Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Joe Biden

Biden on Stimulus Aid to Cities: ‘We’re Trying … It’s Imperfect’

By Elana Schor | Sep 3, 2009 | 1 Comment

Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged today that the White House’s economic recovery push has created stumbling blocks for cities hoping to take advantage of the stimulus, but he defended the administration’s efforts to take a more holistic view of transportation, housing, and other urban concerns. Vice President Joe Biden (Photo: PolitiFact.com) After a speech touting […]

Is the Obama Administration Poised to Push Transit?

By Brad Aaron | Apr 24, 2009 | 4 Comments

While President Barack Obama promoted wind power and cap-and-trade legislation, VP Joe Biden spent Earth Day talking up transit. Public radio’s "The Takeaway" reports that Biden held a presser at a bus maintenance facility in Landover, Maryland, to tout a $300 million investment in hybrid buses and other municipal vehicles as part of the federal […]

Obama and Biden Plan Whistle-Stop Inauguration Tour

By Ben Fried | Dec 15, 2008 | 1 Comment

Looks like the new administration is sending better signals with its inauguration plans than with its most recent White House appointment. TPM has more on the rail-friendly gesture and its traffic-mitigating impact: The Presidential Inaugural Committee has hit on a novel way of reducing the pressure that the enormous crowd expected to show up on […]

If the Candidates Were Trains…

By Brad Aaron | Oct 8, 2008 | 9 Comments

Image via Caroline McCarthy

Rail Advocate: Biden Ascension Wouldn’t Necessarily Help Amtrak

By Brad Aaron | Sep 2, 2008 | 6 Comments

The Washington Post today has a piece summing up Joe Biden’s ties to Amtrak. There’s not a lot of new material in the story (Biden takes the train between Delaware and DC, he has a pro-rail record in the Senate, his son serves on the Amtrak board, etc.), but what caught our attention was a […]

How Do We Make Clean Transportation Part of the National Discussion?

By Brad Aaron | Aug 29, 2008 | 22 Comments

Like Joe Biden, Barack Obama also mentioned Amtrak in his acceptance speech to the Democratic National Convention, but only in reference to his running mate’s preferred mode of transportation. There were many, many things to be excited about yesterday, but any livable streets advocate anticipating a call to rebuild and expand our nation’s transit infrastructure, […]

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