Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Transit Advocacy

Will: Government Shouldn’t Interfere — Except To Benefit Big Highways

By Elana Schor | May 18, 2009 | 3 Comments

Conservative columnist George Will’s angry screed against the Obama administration’s transportation policy is worth digging into this morning — not just to bring one’s blood to a healthy boil, but also to provide a window on the lack of coherent opposition to expanding transit options and diminishing auto dependence. George Will (Photo by newsweek.com) Will […]

Governor Finds a New Way to Rob Transit Even More

By Damien Newton | May 15, 2009 | 11 Comments

Photo: Trinity County California Republican Party This morning when I saw the L.A. Times headline about new budget cuts announced by Governor Schwarzenegger, I wasn’t worried. After all, I knew this time there wasn’t anything else he could do to damage transportation and transit. How much more damage could be done after he abolished state […]

Doomsday Across America

By Ben Fried | Apr 30, 2009 | 8 Comments

Following up on Sarah’s post about transit funding woes in Illinois, this CNN segment from earlier in the month brings home the effect of service cuts and fare hikes in St. Louis. Similar scenarios are playing out all over the country. According to the latest tally from Transportation for America, 85 transit systems serving 22 […]

Is the Obama Administration Poised to Push Transit?

By Brad Aaron | Apr 24, 2009 | 1 Comment

While President Barack Obama promoted wind power and cap-and-trade legislation, VP Joe Biden spent Earth Day talking up transit. Public radio’s "The Takeaway" reports that Biden held a presser at a bus maintenance facility in Landover, Maryland, to tout a $300 million investment in hybrid buses and other municipal vehicles as part of the federal […]

California Transit Association Recommends Long-Term Funding Ideas

By Bryan Goebel | Apr 17, 2009 | 2 Comments

Flickr photo: pbo31 The California Transit Association has submitted a list of recommendations (PDF) to the Commission of the 21st Century Economy, a "bipartisan" panel mostly appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger, that call for establishing a "stable, predictable source of long-term funding" for the state’s public transit agencies. “The latest budget shell game only reinforced what […]

Back to the Grid, Part 2: John Norquist on Reclaiming American Cities

By Ben Fried | Mar 30, 2009 | No Comments

Brady Street, which boasts some of the best street life in Milwaukee, has flourished thanks in part to the defeat of a nearby freeway spur and the redevelopment that followed. Photo: Steve Filmanowicz. As mayor of Milwaukee from 1988 to 2004, CNU President John Norquist made urbanism and livability top priorities. Some of his most […]

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