Tanya Snyder

Jeff Wood of the Overhead Wire (now working with NRDC's crack transportation team) and I talk to Randy Simes in this week's podcast about the streetcar movement in Cincinnati -- and how they finally grabbed the long-elusive gold ring.

You would be lucky to get half as much information about a $5 million transportation project in your state as you can get from a toothpaste tube about how to brush.

New York Studies Possibility of Higher-Speed Rail Between NYC and Niagara Falls (AP) Gov. Rick Scott’s Election-Year Gift to Tampa Area: A $131m Elevated Expressway (Tampa Bay Times) Bixi’s Financial Straits Don’t Seem to Be Impacting U.S. Bike-Share (Gas2) No Snowjam During Atlanta’s Second Snowstorm, So Who Needs Rail? (Marietta Daily Journal) Peer-to-Peer Bike-Share Takes Off … Continued

Opponents had a field day inserting “poison pills” into the bill to allow transit expansion in the Indianapolis area. But so far, they haven’t been able to slow down the bill’s progress. It passed the Indiana House Transportation Committee yesterday, 11-1.

Despite Shuster’s Rejection, Stakeholders Keep Pushing for Gas Tax Hike (Bloomberg, The Hill) Congressional Investigation on Rail Safety Begins Today (Prairie Business) Indiana House Committee Votes 11-1 to Fund Transit (Star) Midwest Dominates EPA Smart Growth Awards (American City & Country) Anti-Gentrification Activists in San Francisco Seattle Protest Google Microsoft Bus (Atlantic Cities) Active Trans … Continued

This week, Jeff Wood and I get indignant about Miami-Dade County's misuse of transit funds for roads, and we speculate about why -- with the current success of pedestrian projects like Times Square -- old-style pedestrian malls are still going belly-up. And then we peek behind the curtain at an exciting new frontier for urban planning: connecting urban form with the feelings they inspire.

Every year, hundreds of cycling advocates gather in Washington, DC for the National Bike Summit. It's always a high point of my year: meeting advocates, learning new things, grooving on momentum and good energy. This year, Streetsblog and Streetfilms are kicking off the Bike Summit with a couple of exciting activities we hope you'll join us for.

CNU Picks 2014 “Freeways Without Futures” Even After Committee Chair Dismissed Idea, Rep. Petri Pushes For Gas Tax Hike (The Hill) Center for American Progress Warns of Need for Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Pennsylvania Transpo Bill Will Fund Repairs — And Expanding Roads (WNEP) Atlanta Tries to Be More Prepared This Time Around (The Hill) More States Consider Tax … Continued

The gospel of active transportation has spread. Thanks to a number of concurrent crises, from obesity to climate change to the "silver tsunami," it's become clear to more and more people that the simple act of walking and biking can have a major impact on averting some of the biggest problems America faces. So over the past several years, several different sectors have joined traditional biking and walking advocates in taking up the mantle of active transportation. And now those relationships have been consecrated into a new union: the Partnership for Active Transportation.

CBO: Want a 6-Year Transpo Bill? Raise $100 Billion Above HTF Revenues (The Hill) New Partnership for Active Transportation Launches Today on Capitol Hill (Roll Call) VIDEO: Rep. Tom Graves on His Plan to Eliminate the Federal Gas Tax (C-SPAN) Is Dense Urban Development Becoming Democratic Party Doctrine? (NextCity) MARTA GM: Atlanta’s Transit Has Only … Continued