Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Transit Advocacy

What Metro and Its Riders Will Lose in State Budget “Deal”

By Damien Newton | Feb 17, 2009 | 16 Comments

Two articles written over the weekend highlight just how grim the new state budget is to transit riders, especially those in Los Angeles County. For those of you that took off early on Friday, the Governor and legislature’s compromise budget, the one that continaully falls one vote away from passing, would completely eliminate the state’s […]

Tonight: PBS on Transit, States, and the Stimulus

By Ben Fried | Feb 13, 2009 | 2 Comments

Streetsbloggers will want to tune in to PBS tonight for the latest installment in the Blueprint America series. NOW will look at where all that stimulus cash is headed. Here’s the teaser: President Barack Obama’s stimulus money is nearly out the door and on its way to the states, but will it be spent in […]

Senate Approves Stimulus Bill — On to Conference Committee

By Ben Fried | Feb 10, 2009 | No Comments

The Senate approved its version of the stimulus bill this afternoon by a 61-37 vote. Attention now turns to conference committee negotiations, where differences between the House and Senate bills will get ironed out. Politico has the scoop on who will be negotiating on the Senate side, and they’re not exactly an urban bunch: Obama’s […]

Is Transit a Priority for Nancy Pelosi?

By Streetsblog | Jan 29, 2009 | 2 Comments

Pelosi helps cut the ribbon at the grand opening of Muni’s T-line. Photo: kitetoa/Flickr House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco claims she is committed to public transit and reducing motor vehicle congestion. In a speech to the Regional Plan Association (RPA) last April she said her flagship issues as speaker are energy independence and […]

Call This Morning to Secure More Transit Money in Stimulus

By Ben Fried | Jan 28, 2009 | No Comments

Last night Jerrold Nadler’s stimulus bill amendment, which would add $3 billion for transit, cleared the House Rules Committee. The full House may vote on the amendment by noon today, so the sooner you call your representative the better. Transportation for America sends along some key points to make in your phone call: In the […]

LA Times: State Should Act to Save Transit Funding

By Damien Newton | Jan 12, 2009 | 3 Comments

An editorial in today’s Los Angeles Times takes the Governor, the Democratic-controlled legislature, and pretty much everyone involved in the dramatic showdown in state government to task for their role in stripping transit funding in the proposed budgets that are floating around Sacramento. Sounding more like Kymberleigh Richards or Bart Reed than the flagship newspaper […]

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