Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Today’s Headlines

The Trump Administration has issued just one-third as many “letters of no prejudice”—signals to local governments that they can expect funding for transit projects—as it did last year, and the delays are costing cities millions. (Bloomberg) The more people ride the bus, the safer streets are. (City Lab) For PARK(ing) Day, the lot at Lenox […]

The Trump Administration is sitting on $1.8 billion for shovel-ready transit projects in L.A., Minneapolis, Chicago, Dallas and elsewhere—and Governing magazine wonders if it’s intentional, not just the usual bureaucratic foot-dragging. The Houston Chronicle urges the city to get rid of “burdensome” parking minimums (and quotes Streetsblog’s coverage in the process). Emory University is urging […]

Ten years after a deadly California train crash, a third of railroads still don’t have positive safety control, a safety measure Congress mandated after the crash. (WaPo) The Seattle Times delves deep into the $3-billion I-405 widening project, which includes new toll lanes (boo!), five bike and pedestrian paths and an 11-stop bus rapid transit […]

A Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority survey shows strong public support for streetcars along two stretches of the Beltline and the Clifton Corridor light rail connection to Emory University. But some transit advocates criticized MARTA for not including rail along the entire Beltline as an option. (Curbed) Public radio station WCPO takes a deep dive […]

It was a good day for Sound Transit: The Seattle transit agency won a $100-million federal grant for the Lynnwood light rail extension, and a lawsuit challenging Washington’s car tab fee was dismissed. (Post-Intelligencer) Now, if only the mayor was keen on transit. Cincinnati is looking to L.A.’s $120-billion sales-tax levy as an example of […]

Government spending on transportation is at a 70-year low — just 1.4 percent of GDP. That’s too low, Bloomberg says, although it will probably never reach the all-time high of 5 percent again. Seattle officials are betting $300 million that transit riders will use a new bus rapid transit stop on I-405. That cost is […]