Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Transportation Funding

Tell the Mayor That You Want Better Transportation

By Damien Newton | Dec 22, 2008 | 5 Comments

Mayor Villaraigosa wants to hear from you! The Mayor’s Office just released their annual survey to help them create their budget priorities for the next fiscal year, giving all transportation activists another chance to let our elected leaders know how we feel. Of particular interest to Streetsbloggers, the last one-third of the survey has to […]

Stimulus Package on Track to Perpetuate Transpo Status Quo

By Ben Fried | Dec 15, 2008 | No Comments

A front page story in yesterday’s Washington Post has the most thorough analysis to date of how infrastructure spending may be divvied up in an Obama stimulus package. Nothing is set in stone, but the dividing lines are increasingly clear: States and their DOTs are emphasizing road projects, while cities are looking for ways to […]

San Francisco Breaks Ground on Transit Mega-Center

By Matthew Roth | Dec 11, 2008 | 2 Comments

A rendering of the Transbay Transit Center with a 5.4 acre park on its roof. At a groundbreaking ceremony for the long-awaited Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco yesterday, Mayor Gavin Newsom asserted the project will be "so much more extraordinary than Grand Central Station." Pointing to the renderings on a projection screen behind him, […]

City Making Its List for Obama Stimulus

By Damien Newton | Dec 9, 2008 | 6 Comments

At tomorrow’s City Council Joint Transportation and Public Works Committee, the city will begin it’s quest to get bailout funds from the future Obama Administration. For those of you not paying attention to national politics, the President-Elect seems to be heading towards an infrastructure investment plan, "the largest since the creation of the national highway […]

Uncertainty About Federal and State Funds Tempers Measure R Enthusiasm

By Damien Newton | Dec 4, 2008 | 9 Comments

Anyone worried that the Metro Board of Directors, with an estimated $40 billion in hand to spend over the next 30 years, was going to break the bank right out of the bank can breathe a sigh of relief. Concerns over federal and state funding measures, and how it impacts our plans for Measure R […]

Tell the Highway Lobby About ’09 Transpo Spending

By Brad Aaron | Dec 2, 2008 | No Comments

Not to be outdone, the road-building lobbyists at the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) have launched their campaign to influence federal transportation spending priorities over the next year, including the 2009 TEA package. Last week, while encouraging team Obama to incorporate highway construction into its economic stimulus plan, AASHTO rolled out […]

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