Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Ray LaHood

Michigan’s Looking Good in the High-Speed Rail Chase

By Elana Schor | Jun 12, 2009 | No Comments

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) is a powerful advocate for high-speed rail funding. (Photo: Listings Foreclosures) During an appearance in Michigan today to promote the Obama administration’s economic recovery efforts, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood made a potentially prescient prediction about the regions vying for federal help to build inter-city high-speed rail. Per the Detroit News, […]

LaHood Vows to Avert Federal Transpo Bankruptcy and Pay For It

By Elana Schor | Jun 4, 2009 | 2 Comments

The Obama administration is working on a plan to fill the shortfall in the nation’s highway trust fund by August without adding to the federal deficit, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told Congress today. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (Photo: HillBuzz) The circumstances behind the trust fund’s financial troubles are well-known: a nationwide decline in driving coupled […]

LaHood, Biden Meet With Governors on High-Speed Rail

By Elana Schor | Jun 3, 2009 | 14 Comments

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Vice President Biden met at the White House this afternoon with officials from 20 states in contention for funding as part of the Obama administration’s high-speed rail program. The high-speed Midwest Regional Rail Initiative’s proposed reach. (Photo: Michigan Messenger) "This is how the interstate highway system started, folks," Biden told […]

LaHood: ‘About Everything We Do Around Here Is Government Intrusion’

By Elana Schor | May 21, 2009 | 3 Comments

Ray LaHood is known for his disarming candor — his recent admission that he’s not "that great a transportation person" being a case in point — and those qualities were on vivid display today as the Transportation Secretary delivered an address to the National Press Club. LaHood’s speech was aimed at countering a recent flurry […]

LaHood to Streetsblog: No, I’m Not Changing the Name of My Blog

By Aaron Naparstek | May 14, 2009 | 21 Comments

Photo: Danny Bright I’ll add a few more impressions to Bobby Cuza’s report on yesterday’s ABNY breakfast with federal transportation secretary Ray LaHood. But before I get to that: How beautiful a morning was it for a bike commute? I met T.A. executive director Paul White for a 7:00 a.m. coffee at Gorilla on Fifth […]

LaHood: NYC’s Congestion Pricing Money Still There for the Taking

By Ben Fried | May 14, 2009 | 12 Comments

Speaking at an event in Midtown yesterday morning, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood let it be known that New York City can still claim hundreds of millions of dollars in federal transit funding — if local lawmakers implement congestion pricing. NY1 reports: The city was slated to receive about $350 million in federal transportation funds to […]

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