Tanya Snyder

California HSR Marches Forward With Same Deadlines Despite Setbacks (AP) To Avoid Future Snowjams, Atlanta Must Invest in Transit (Gainesville Times) Virginia Lawmaker Seeks to Ensure that New Transpo Dollars Are Spent Wisely (Times Dispatch) Sen. Baucus, Champion for Rural Highway Funding, Retires (Missoulian) New Jersey Can’t Figure Out Who’s Supposed to Be Clearing Snow … Continued

Only one of every five federal transportation dollars are set aside specifically for transit. So it’s infuriating when a local government plunders the small pool of transit funds and spends it on roads. Particularly when that place has some of the country’s most notoriously car-dominated and dangerous streets.

Danish architect and urban planner Jan Gehl, who led Copenhagen's turn away from car-domination toward streets and public spaces for people, is on a U.S. tour. I got to sit down with him this week in Washington.

All options may be on the table for funding transportation, but Bill Shuster has chosen his.

NHTSA Wants to Require Automakers to Install Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications Technology (AP) Indiana House Passes Transpo Bill (Inside Indiana Business) Super Bowl Highlighted Another Bad Christie Decision: Canceling the ARC Tunnel (TSTC, NBC) TxDOT on Dallas Highway Teardown Idea: We Don’t Wanna (Dallas Morning News) Virginia Figuring Out How to Spend Its Transportation Windfall (Roanoke Times, … Continued

Enforcement of jaywalking doesn't improve pedestrian safety. So what will? Tom Vanderbilt, best-selling author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do, gave a succinct answer in a New York Times op-ed this weekend. Our cities will be safer to walk in when we have "better walking infrastructure, slower car speeds and more pedestrians."

One More Congressman Comes Out for Gas tax Increase (Sun Sentinel) SSTI Review: Caltrans “Acting Too Much as Highway Dept., Not Mobility Dept.” (Streetsblog SF, SacBee) Not Kidding: South Carolina DOT Director Resigns After DUI Arrest (Myrtle Beach Online) TxDOT Studying Rail Expansion Options in Texas and Oklahoma (Killeen Daily Herald) Huge Data Dump Supports … Continued

Organizers of major sporting events, from this weekend's "Mass Transit Super Bowl" to the Sochi Olympics a week from now, may benefit from a lesson learned during the 2012 London Olympics: a tactic transportation planners secretly call “the Big Scare.”

The day after President Obama’s State of the Union plea to improve economic opportunity for struggling Americans, New Jersey Democrat Albio Sires introduced a bill that he says will help meet that goal.

Maybe it doesn’t matter what President Obama says in his State of the Union. According to a Washington Post analysis, his batting average for last year’s SOTU proposals was a .208. In 2013, the president pleaded for tax reform, an American Jobs Act, $50 billion for a Fix-It-First infrastructure repair binge, a “Partnership to Rebuild America” to lure private capital to infrastructure projects, and an Energy Security Trust to use oil and gas revenues for technology to “shift our cars and trucks off oil for good.” None of that went anywhere.