Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Federal Transportation Bill

Mica is “Pretty Confident” That New Rules Won’t Starve Highway Trust Fund

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 11, 2011 | No Comments

The Journal of Commerce reported yesterday that the House Transportation Committee chair, Rep. John Mica (R-FL), is “’pretty confident’ in the assurances he has received in talks with House leaders” that recent changes to House rules wouldn’t jeopardize Highway Trust Fund spending. The new rules break the previous assurance that the full balance of the […]

Obama Admin Will Make Its Transportation Push… During the Next Congress

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 29, 2010 | No Comments

President Obama is “going to throw his support behind a six-year reauthorization of the transportation program” in Congress. That was the word today from Roy Kienitz, who represented the Transportation Department today as he testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. In a meeting with transportation reform advocates last week, Secretary Ray LaHood […]

Republicans Line Up to Oppose Obama’s Transportation Proposal

By Adam Voiland | Sep 9, 2010 | No Comments

The critical multi-year transportation bill, which lawmakers have sidelined since last summer as they’ve quarreled about how to pay for it, looks to be back on the agenda after President Obama’s pugnacious Labor Day speech, in which he called on Congress to ramp up investment in transportation. The broad outline of Obama’s plan calls for […]

Postcards From Our National Transportation Funding Meltdown

By Adam Voiland | Jul 16, 2010 | No Comments

At an event billed as a “town hall” held at USDOT headquarters yesterday, top department officials answered questions about the future of the nation’s road, rail, bus, and bike networks — even as the prospects of passing a comprehensive transportation reauthorization bill anytime this year appear as dim as ever. Already, reauthorization of the transportation […]

Frustration With Stop-Gap Transpo Funding Shows at DOT Town Hall

By Chris McGann | Jul 15, 2010 | No Comments

Agency Expects Congress to Authorize Third Round of TIGER Grants U.S. DOT’s top leaders (save Secretary Ray LaHood) fielded questions about the next long-term transportation bill this morning as part of a “town hall” session at agency headquarters. The conference, the sixth and final stop on a national listening tour, was billed as a chance […]

Former U.S. DOT Chief on the Worst-Case Scenario: 4 Years of Extensions

By Elana Schor | Apr 19, 2010 | No Comments

To a certain extent, hope springs eternal in federal transportation circles. Even as state DOTs and metropolitan planning organizations operate under the latest in a series of extensions of the 2005 law that governs road, transit, and bike-ped spending, few are willing to envision a future in which new legislation doesn’t pass by next year. […]

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