Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Transportation Funding

Gov. Talks Transportation Financing and Expansion on Meet the Press

By Damien Newton | Mar 24, 2009 | 3 Comments

This week Governor Schwarzenegger joined Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Meet the Press. A partial clip of the Governor’s statement on transportation can be found above and the full segment can be viewed at the Meet the Press website; but for those at work, here’s what the governor […]

Metro (Sort Of) Decides on Its Stimulus List

By Damien Newton | Feb 26, 2009 | 6 Comments

Today, the Metro Board of Directors passed a list of projects which it will use to apply for stimulus funds as they become available. Their list, available at the end of this document, is actually quite a bit greener than one might expect with pages of bicycle, pedestrian and transit projects dominating the document and […]

Advocates Launch Effort to Restore State Transit Funding

By Bryan Goebel | Feb 20, 2009 | 9 Comments

Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg has told advocates he wants to help find a state transit funding solution. California transit advocates have begun organizing a strategy to move legislation through Sacramento that would dedicate a steady, long-term state revenue source for public transit and prevent future budget writers from raiding it. "We need to […]

Final CA Budget Cuts Gas Tax Increase, Still Nothing for Transit

By Damien Newton | Feb 19, 2009 | 11 Comments

In other words, the passage of the budget was so important to legislative leaders, they were willing to shake-up the electoral system that put them in office in the first place. And yet...not one legislature from Los Angeles or any other metropolis was willing to stand up for transit operating funds.

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 […]

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