Recent Streetsblog LA posts about AASHTO

AASHTO Suggests Some Tools for Getting Out of the Transpo Funding Mess

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 7, 2011 | No Comments

The Problem: Highway Trust Fund revenues only cover about 44 percent of the transportation system’s needs. The Solution: an alphabet soup of funding and financing mechanisms (they’re different!) which, if used optimally, could supplement gas taxes and tolls and boost transportation investment. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) just came out […]

State DOTs’ Prescription for American Cities: More Highways

By Noah Kazis | May 18, 2010 | No Comments

AASHTO’s new report recommends that America’s urban transportation policy repeat the mistakes of the past. Photo of the Cross-Bronx Expressway: Tool Ake via Flickr The umbrella group for America’s state DOTs, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, has started a major new push for, you guessed it, more highways. The new campaign […]

Road and Transit Groups Join Boxer to Push for Senate Jobs Bill

By Elana Schor | Feb 17, 2010 | 1 Comment

Representatives from Washington’s road and transit lobbies joined Senate environment committee chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today to call for swift passage of job-creation legislation that is slated for a vote in the upper chamber of Congress on Monday. Senate environment committee chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) (Photo: AP) Faced with the prospects of a GOP filibuster, […]

AASHTO Stimulus Report Omits Jobs Data Comparing Transit With Roads

By Elana Schor | Feb 11, 2010 | 2 Comments

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), the trade group representing state DOTs in Washington, yesterday unveiled a website and report billed as a one-year "progress report" on the White House’s $34.3 billion in formula-based transportation stimulus spending. (Photo: WBEZ) AASHTO’s report, citing data furnished to Congress, noted that 77 percent of […]