Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Transportation Funding

This Could Be the Biggest Year Ever for Transit at the Ballot Box

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 10, 2012 | No Comments

Next month, 19 transit-related measures will come before voters. If the rest of this year is any guide, 16 of them will pass. Despite a high-profile loss in Atlanta a few months ago, transit referenda have an 86 percent success rate so far this year, according to the Center For Transportation Excellence. It strikes some […]

California Transportation Commission: $538 Billion Needed to Maintain System

By Dana Gabbard | Apr 11, 2012 | No Comments

One of the things I do each year is read the California Transportation Commission Annual Report. I find it a useful snapshot of policy and operation issues for transportation in California. Intriguingly the 2011 Report’s introduction mentions a statewide transportation needs assessment the Commission released late last year. Over 10 years ago the Commission undertook […]

Regional Agencies Taking Slow Walk Towards Sustainable Funding

By Damien Newton | Nov 9, 2011 | 1 Comment

In recent weeks, regional transportation agencies in Southern California have made some slow moves towards embracing a more sustainable transportation network throughout the Southland. Local “Metropolitan Planning Organization” the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) is poised to pass a long term plan that would dramatically increase bicycle and pedestrian funding while its sister agency […]

New GAO Report: All States are “Donees” When it Comes to Highways

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 13, 2011 | No Comments

You’ve probably heard some grumbling or chuckling — depending on where you live — about the way federal highway funds are distributed to states. And it’s true that for quite some time, the country was divided into “donor” and “donee” states, each group either contributing more revenue than they received from the Federal-Aid Highway Program […]

Glendale Invests in Safe and Healthy Streets for a Safe and Healthy Future

By Damien Newton | Sep 7, 2011 | 5 Comments

This week’s series on the grants from the L.A. County Department of Public Health’s Policies for Livable and Active Communities and Environments (PLACE) Grants focuses on Glendale and their groundbreaking Safe and Healthy Streets Plan. Glendale’s grant was different than most because it wasn’t the city that was actually awarded the grant, but the Los […]

New Legislation Seeks to Lower Voter Threshold for Transit Tax Approval

By Damien Newton | Aug 29, 2011 | 21 Comments

A series of amendments proposed by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) to SB 791 would lower the threshold of voter approval for new taxes to fund transportation improvements from 67% to 50%. “SB 791 empowers local communities to meet their local transportation needs, improve regional mobility, and invest in high-priority, job-creating infrastructure improvements,” said Sen. […]

Show More Stories