Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Transportation Funding

Did Team Obama Gut Transit Funds From the Stimulus Package?

By Brad Aaron | Jan 21, 2009 | No Comments

Reporting on last week’s stimulus letdown — when a proposal by US Rep. James Oberstar’s Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for $17 billion in mass transit spending was slashed by the Appropriations Committee, while $30 billion in proposed allocations for roads and bridges remained the same — Grist got word that the then-incoming Obama administration may […]

Dems Release Stimulus Draft: $30B for Highways, $10B for Transit

By Ben Fried | Jan 15, 2009 | No Comments

Via Greater Greater Washington, the Huffington Post is reporting that House Democrats have released a draft summary of an economic stimulus bill, and at first blush there’s little for green transportation advocates to cheer. $30 billion is slated for highways, $10 billion for transit — a marginal improvement over the longstanding 80/20 split in federal […]

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 […]

Tell Congress: Don’t Waste Money on Highway Expansion

By Ben Fried | Jan 8, 2009 | 1 Comment

States should know better than to funnel more money into road expansion at the expense of maintenance. With President-elect Obama back in Washington, action is heating up again around the economic recovery package, which could total up to $850 billion over the next two years. As much as $100 billion may be at stake for […]

Measure R Highway Funds Ready to Roll. Transit Funds? Not So Much.

By Damien Newton | Jan 7, 2009 | 46 Comments

Yesterday, the Bottleneck Blog publicly released the changes to Metro’s Long Range Plan that will be voted upon by the Metro Board at the end of the month. Steve Hymon noted that there were many changes to the timelines to complete projects, and many of them weren’t acceleration notices. Below is the timeline, with various […]

Write Governor, Legislature to Stop Raid on Transit Funds

By Damien Newton | Jan 6, 2009 | 1 Comment

As Governor Schwarzenegger continues his quixotic quest to reduce the state’s Greenhouse Gases without reducing the number of cars that travel California’s car choked freeways, the newest state budget continues what is now a more than yearly tradition of robbing transit funds to help balance the out-of-control spending in other parts of the state budget. […]

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