Today’s Headlines
Hill Staffers: House Won’t Pass Transpo Bill This Month (Politico) Fixing the House Bill: Cutting Regulatory Burdens and Bureaucracy (T4America) Yonah Freemark on the Senate’s Transportation Program (TTPolitic) San Francisco’s Experiment With Demand-Based Parking Is Working (NYT) Sustainable Mobility on Road to UN Rio+20 Conference (Carnegie Endowment) Obama Pushes Energy Plans as Gas Prices Rise … Continued
March 16, 2012
Compare the Senate and House Transpo Bills, Side-By-Side
Now that the Senate has passed a transportation bill and everyone's waiting to see what the House will do next, Transportation for America has done us all a great service and compared the Senate's bill to the House's -- well, to the last thing the House showed us before things fell apart for John Boehner's extreme attack on transit, biking, and walking.
March 15, 2012
Today’s Headlines
Senate Passes Transportation Bill: How They Voted (NYT) More Praise for Senate Bill: NRDC, APTA; No Love From CEI A Look at John Boehner’s Options Now That the Bill’s in His Hands (Politico) Bipartisan? Comparing the 2012 Bills to Past Transpo Votes (T4America) Guide to Senate’s Changes to Sidepath Rule and Rec. Trails (BikeLeague) Gas Prices Force More … Continued
March 15, 2012
Accolades Pour In for Senate Transpo Bill From All Quarters
Praise for the Senate transportation bill and its bipartisan passage is pouring in to the inboxes of Congressional transportation reporters this afternoon.
March 14, 2012
Senate Passes Two-Year Transportation Bill, 74-22; All Eyes on House
The Senate transportation bill has finally passed by a vote of 74 to 22. In a show of bipartisan support, which this bill has largely enjoyed from start to finish, 22 Republicans voted for its passage.
March 14, 2012
Today’s Headlines
Senate Bill Surges Forward; House Bogs Down (Next American City) Conclusion of Work on Senate Bill Will Come Today (Hill) Fixing the House Bill: Reducing Air Pollution With More Travel Options (T4America) Reversing a Radical Rewrite: Can John Boehner Go Bipartisan? (Transpo Nation) New Report on Statewide Bike Orgs and Federal Funding (Bike League) Bitter … Continued
March 14, 2012
After 30 Years of Federal Support for Transit, Battle Lines are Redrawn
Add Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff to the list of people saying that it's premature to declare victory over the House's attempts to cast transit into the abyss. Rogoff knows a thing or two about transportation bills: He was an aide on the Senate Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee for 20 years, during which time the federal government passed three long-term transportation laws.
March 13, 2012
Today’s Headlines
Mass Transit Use Rises as Gas Prices Soar (CNN) LaHood: House in “Disarray” on Transportation Bill (Hill) Senate Ready to Overhaul Highway, Transit Programs (WaP0) …But the Senate’s Transpo Bill Is Far From Transformative (HuffPo) Mass Transit Tax Break Considered By Sen. Schumer and Others (HuffPo) Washington Spin on Transpo Bill Makes Good Look Even … Continued
March 13, 2012
LaHood to House: “Get on the Bus” With a Bipartisan Transportation Bill
This morning, at the American Public Transportation Association's annual legislative conference, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood said he was recently asked by the House Appropriations Committee if he prefers a two-year transportation bill or a five-year transportation bill. Neither, he said: "I prefer a bipartisan bill."
March 12, 2012
Today’s Headlines
“Highway” Funding “Stuck in Reverse” (Star Tribune) Schumer: Tax Benefits for Transit Commuters Will Be in Transpo Bill (Bloomberg) Boehner: We’ll Work With Senate If GOP Balks on Highway Bill (Transpo Nation) Are Cars to Blame for Distracted Driving? (USA Today) Do More Bikeways Mean More Commuting By Bicycle? (Crikey) Metropolitan Sprawl Puts the “Urban” … Continued
March 12, 2012