Recent Streetsblog USA posts about John Mica

Bike-Ped Defunding Proposal Sparks Mutiny in Mica’s Home District

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 21, 2011 | 7 Comments

The residents of Florida’s 7th Congressional District must contend with some of the most dangerous pedestrian crossings in the country. And it’s beginning to sound like they’re tired of it. But is their powerful Congressman listening? Rep. John Mica, chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, has put forward a proposal that would […]

Mica Accedes to Dems’ Request to Delay Action on Rail Privatization

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 21, 2011 | No Comments

John Mica has blinked. Rather than go full steam ahead with his fast-track plan to introduce his bill to privatize the Northeast Corridor today and to have the committee discuss it and vote on it tomorrow, Transportation Committee Chair John Mica (R-FL) has agreed to delay action to allow time for a full legislative hearing. […]

House Plan to Privatize Northeast Corridor Retains Public Ownership

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 15, 2011 | 8 Comments

Under the House Republicans’ proposal to bring more private competition to the nation’s most valuable transportation asset, the Northeast Corridor would remain in public hands. Transportation Committee Chair John Mica (R-FL) made clear that under his and Rail Subcommittee Chair Bill Shuster’s plan, “the public maintains ownership of the corridor; we’re not giving it to […]

House Transportation Committee To Begin Reauthorization Next Week

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 15, 2011 | 2 Comments

Correction: Only the rail portion of the bill, specifically the GOP proposal to privatize the Northeast Corridor, will be rolled out next week. The rest of the bill, Mica said, will be introduced in the week after the July 4 recess, followed by a period for comment and public participation, and then a markup July […]

GOP Proposal to Privatize the Northeast Corridor Meets Resistance

By Tanya Snyder | May 27, 2011 | 5 Comments

House Republicans, led by Transportation Committee leaders John Mica (R-FL) and Bill Schuster (R-PA), have a plan to take the Northeast Corridor out of Amtrak’s control and privatize it. They’ve long called Amtrak a “Soviet-style operation” that loses money. Mica said that ridership of the NEC hasn’t changed since 1977, the year after Amtrak took […]

Mica and Nadler Duke It Out on the Pages of Politico Over Transpo Funding

By Tanya Snyder | May 23, 2011 | No Comments

In an op-ed in Politico this morning, House Transportation Committee Chair John Mica (R-FL) calls for getting rid of waste and inefficiencies in the transportation system, shifting more power to the states, and “doing more with less.” The emphasis, of course, being on the word “less.” Mica is still gunning for a bill at existing […]

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