Recent Streetsblog LA posts about President Obama

Call Now for a Better Transit Stimulus

By Ben Fried | Jan 27, 2009 | 3 Comments

We’re at a critical moment for green transportation in the stimulus package. The key piece on the table now is Jerrold Nadler’s amendment to boost transit investment by $3 billion. A decision could be reached as soon as today, so now is the time to make those phone calls. The people to reach are the […]

“New America Foundation” Columnist Calls for 710 Expansion

By Damien Newton | Jan 23, 2009 | 15 Comments

Via LA Observed Journalist and New America Foundation Senior Fellow Joe Matthews has a unique idea for how President Obama can rebuild the country’s infrastructure and stimulate the economy: build the I-710 Freeway Extension: The 710 is the main transportation artery out of America’s largest port, the Port of Long Beach. It’d be a big […]

Congress Sending Wrong Signals to State DOTs in Stimulus Draft

By Ben Fried | Jan 22, 2009 | No Comments

Gary Toth is director of Project for Public Spaces’ transportation program and an influential voice for transportation as a tool for making communities more livable. In this piece he tells us how state DOTs are taking cues from Washington as the stimulus bill takes shape. It’s going to be more of the same unless Congress […]

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 […]

The Last Thing This Nation Needs…

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 21, 2009 | 1 Comment

I hate to nitpick at an outstanding and historic speech but it’s January 21 and time to start talking about the stimulus bill, so, well, I’ll let James Howard Kunstler do the nitpicking… “We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars…” — Barack Obama’s inaugural address. “The last […]

The Inauguration Transportation Plan as Demonstration Project

By Ben Fried | Jan 20, 2009 | No Comments

Inauguration parade rehearsal. Photo: Travir/Flickr As many as four million people are expected to descend on the National Mall today for the inauguration of Barack Obama as the nation’s 44th President. Contending with that mass of humanity has left officials with no choice but to implement temporary policies to get people in and out of […]

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