Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Transportation Funding

Times Editorial Blasts Molina Over Sales Tax Obstructionism

By Damien Newton | Jul 11, 2008 | No Comments

Maybe there are some Times’ editors reading Streetsblog? In an editorial in today’s newspaper, the Los Angeles Times takes a whack at the politicians who’s local posturing endangers Metro’s half-cent sales tax proposal, especially Gloria Molina. The Times sums up it’s excellent editorial: What Molina and the other obstructionists fail to grasp is that if […]

Maryland Senator Ben Cardin: America Needs Transit, Now

By Brad Aaron | Jul 1, 2008 | 6 Comments

The $1.7 billion in public transportation funding promised by the Saving Energy Through Public Transportation Act would be a step in the right direction, but it pales in comparison to what might have been. The Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act — the cap-and-trade bill that died in the Senate last month — would have brought 100 […]

Metro’s $40 Billion Plan

By Damien Newton | Jul 1, 2008 | 29 Comments

Metro’s Plans Are Big on Expansion, Not So Big on Increasing Bike/Ped. Access to Their Stations Before Metro can place a half cent sales tax increase on the fall ballot, it needs to tell us how it’s going to spend the $40 billion the increase would raise over the next thirty years. At last week’s […]

Metro: Sales Tax Proposal Has Overwhelming Support

By Damien Newton | Jun 24, 2008 | 11 Comments

So, maybe the death of Mike Feuer’s legislation to lower the voter approval threshold for a sales tax increase from 67% to 55% isn’t such a big deal after all. Buoyed by recent support by business owners and west side rail riders, a new poll by Fairbank, Maslin, Maulin & Associates (FMM&A) on behalf of […]

Bill Seeking to Reduce VMT Moves Through State Senate

By Damien Newton | Jun 18, 2008 | 1 Comment

Yesterday, the Times wrote an excellent editorial promoting AB 842, “Reducing Greenhouse Gases from Sprawl." This legislation would require cities and counties to have a plan to reduce vehicle miles traveled by 10% before they could receive "Prop C" funds fro Department of Housing and Community Development which are now doled out based on a […]

Metro Makes the Case for Half-Cent Sales Tax Increase

By Damien Newton | Jun 13, 2008 | 26 Comments

Yesterday, Metro released rail ridership numbers which saw overall ridership growth of 6% compared to last year’s numbers. The Orange Line also saw growth of 1.3%. Bus ridership fell slightly, but Metro spokesperson Marc Littman attributed that to both May 2007 being a good month for bus ridership and last year’s fare increase. For a […]

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