Recent Streetsblog LA posts about President Obama

Obama: Europe and Russia Invest More in Roads and Railways Than We Do

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 25, 2011 | No Comments

President Obama made his long-awaited infrastructure push during his State of the Union address – with more information included in an accompanying memo released today (see below). This is what he told Congress: The third step in winning the future is rebuilding America. To attract new businesses to our shores, we need the fastest, most […]

Will President Obama Speak for the Transit-Starved Tonight?

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 25, 2011 | No Comments

President Obama is expected to make a strong push for infrastructure spending during the State of the Union address tonight. Ahead of the address, the Transportation Equity Network organized its members and supporters to write to President Obama, telling their personal stories of why transit funding is crucial to their communities. In all, TEN will […]

How Obama Should Address Transportation in the State of the Union

By Streetsblog | Jan 19, 2011 | No Comments

Streetsblog Capitol Hill is pleased to publish this guest post from Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director for NRDC. The President got pulses racing in the transportation world with stirring speeches about infrastructure investment this past Labor Day and Columbus Day. And his economic advisers recently put out a thoughtful report [PDF] making the case […]

Obama Still Believes in a Bipartisan Push for Infrastructure. Do You?

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 9, 2010 | No Comments

Last night, President Obama appeared on 60 Minutes to talk about the election results – a “shellacking,” as he’s called it – and chart the path forward. He talked a lot about infrastructure – and between the lines of some of his other comments are messages we should be paying attention to. The first thing […]

Obama Admin Will Make Its Transportation Push… During the Next Congress

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 29, 2010 | No Comments

President Obama is “going to throw his support behind a six-year reauthorization of the transportation program” in Congress. That was the word today from Roy Kienitz, who represented the Transportation Department today as he testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. In a meeting with transportation reform advocates last week, Secretary Ray LaHood […]

Republicans Line Up to Oppose Obama’s Transportation Proposal

By Adam Voiland | Sep 9, 2010 | No Comments

The critical multi-year transportation bill, which lawmakers have sidelined since last summer as they’ve quarreled about how to pay for it, looks to be back on the agenda after President Obama’s pugnacious Labor Day speech, in which he called on Congress to ramp up investment in transportation. The broad outline of Obama’s plan calls for […]

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