Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Federal Transportation Bill

House Members Make Their Case for Transpo Investment (and Earmarks)

By Kathryn Reid Moore | Apr 6, 2011 | No Comments

While House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan grabbed headlines with the release of a fiscal plan that would severely constrain the federal transportation program (more on that later), the theme of the day at the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee was the desperate need to invest in infrastructure, as members of Congress provided their own proposals […]

Lowlights From the Transpo Bill Hearing: A Tea Partier Tries to De-Fund Transit

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 4, 2011 | No Comments

Last week’s stakeholder extravaganza in the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee brought out the best and worst ideas about how to reform the transportation sector. We highlighted some of the good stuff earlier. Now for the bad and the ugly. Really, out of 40 (count ‘em!) witnesses at this mother of all transportation hearings, only one […]

More From the House Transpo Hearings: The Advocates Edition

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 1, 2011 | No Comments

Editor’s note: These are the highlights from hearings on the upcoming transportation bill, where people made the case to Congress for sustainable transportation options. I’ll follow up with the Bad and the Ugly (like a whole lineup of people who want to kick transit out of the Highway Trust Fund). This week’s stakeholder hearings in […]

Strange Bedfellows Unite for Infrastructure Investment, Financing Tools

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 31, 2011 | No Comments

The “Tom and Rich Show” continued on Capitol Hill yesterday. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue and AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka joined up for yet another event to show that business and labor, which don’t agree on anything, agree on a major infusion of federal investment for infrastructure. They weren’t the only strange bedfellows there. […]

Forty Transportation Experts, One Message

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 31, 2011 | No Comments

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee just spent two days listening to 40 experts from different aspects of the transportation sector and advocacy community, from engineers to environmentalists to the Tea Party. Each person had just four minutes to speak and they crammed as much as they could into their time: observations, demands, recommendations for […]

Day Two of Massive Transportation Committee Hearing Underway

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 30, 2011 | No Comments

Highways and Transit Subcommittee Chair John Duncan (R-TN) can’t stop mentioning that this kind of hearing has “never been done before.” The subcommittee is hearing from 20 witnesses a day for two days in an effort to satisfy every interest group’s need to speak before the committee gets to work crafting the next surface transportation […]

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