Tanya Snyder

Kevin Roper, the Walmart trucker who reportedly slammed into a limo bus carrying several comedians early Saturday morning, is having his say on Twitter. He wants the world to know that the crash that killed James “Uncle Jimmy Mack” McNair and critically injured Tracy Morgan and three others was an "accident."

White House “Strongly Opposes” House Appropriations Bill for Transportation (Hill) Brookings: “Innovation Districts” Concentrate Ideas, Technology, Development in Urban Form House Rejects Funding Cuts For Amtrak, In Unprecedented Act of Reason (Hill) Postmaster General Doesn’t Mind GOP Plan to Pay for Transpo By Cutting Saturday Delivery (Hill) Teamsters Union Urges Congress to Restore Hours-of-Service Rules … Continued

Over the weekend, comedian James "Jimmy Mack" McNair died and Tracy Morgan and three other comedians were critically injured when a tractor-trailer crashed into their limo on the New Jersey Turnpike.

Bridge Failure Prompts Delaware Sen. Chris Coons to Speak Out on Infrastructure Investment (MSNBC) Cobb County Officials Oppose Plan to Run Transit Out to New Braves Stadium (WSAV) NYC Bike Shops Complain Citi Bike Has Hurt Their Business (Bloomberg) Aging Bridge in Minneapolis Is Temporarily Bike/Ped Only (Strib) Even Tiny Rural Towns Like Bill, Wyoming, … Continued

Sao Paulo Transit Workers Go on Strike a Week Before World Cup (SI Wire) Senate Finance Committee Plans to Pass Transpo Funding Plan By July 4… (BNA) … While Tussling Over Tax Reform (The Hill) Senate Transpo Budget Includes Amendment to Suspend Rule on Truckers’ Sleep (Overdrive) WaPo: Congress at a Low Point With Transportation … Continued

Yesterday, we ran the first part of my conversation with some of the architects of moveDC, the new long-range plan from the District Department of Transportation. MoveDC calls for the implementation of congestion pricing, 69 miles of high-capacity transit in addition to the 22 miles of streetcar already planned, a new downtown Metro loop, 72 miles of protected bike lanes, 136 miles of painted bike lanes, and 135 miles of off-street trails over the next 25 years.

Livable streets advocates all over the country are buzzing about DC’s far-sighted new transportation plan, called moveDC. So yesterday Streetsblog sat down with some of the people responsible for writing and implementing the plan. I spoke to Matt Brown, the District Department of Transportation's new acting director; Colleen Hawkinson, strategic planning branch manager at DDOT’s Policy, Planning and Sustainability Administration (PPSA); and Sam Zimbabwe, associate director of the PPSA.

House Republicans announced on Friday the latest in a long line of hare-brained schemes for funding the Highway Trust Fund, which is projected to become insolvent in August. Their ingenious proposal is to pay for transportation by making cuts at the post office.

Time to Stop the Desperate Funding Gimmicks, Taxpayer Bailouts (HuffPo, LIUNA) NH Lawmakers Approve Gas Tax Hike As Long As It Funds Road Expansion and Nothing Else (NHPR) Obama Sends Julian Castro‘s Nomination to be HUD Secretary to Senate (The Hill) Formerly Fast-Growing Sprawl Towns Decline in New Jersey (NJ.com) Honolulu Rail Not Living Up to Job-Creation … Continued

It's hard to make the case for public spending on biking and walking without hard data. And quality data has been hard to come by. The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy is looking to change that. The group has taken on a new project to rigorously measure walking and biking on various corridors, providing baseline data that can help make the case for active transportation projects.