Tanya Snyder

$170 Million Later, the Columbia River Crossing Is Dead (Bike Portland, Columbian) Washington State Legislature Also Skips Vote on 10.5-cent Gas Tax (AP) BART Normally Carries 400,000 Commuters a Day. Today It’ll Carry Zero. (CBS) Villaraigosa’s Legacy in LA: A City With Real Transpo Mojo (Governing) Even Ed Rendell Couldn’t Convince PA Dems to Pass a … Continued

Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx was unanimously confirmed yesterday by the full Senate to become the new chief of U.S. DOT. He’ll be sworn in soon, probably next week.

Outgoing U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said a few parting words yesterday at the National Press Club, just an hour before his successor, Anthony Foxx, was confirmed by the full Senate. The theme of LaHood's prepared remarks was bipartisanship, but he admits he's not seeing enough of it these days in Washington.

Last week, a House panel envisioned some big cuts to next year’s transportation budget. TIGER and high-speed rail would get nothing, Amtrak would get slashed, and ixnay on all that green “livability” crap. (And that's practically a quote.)

After a remarkably smooth and uncontentious process, Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx has just been confirmed by the full Senate as the 17th U.S. Secretary of Transportation. Not a single senator voted against -- or even abstained from -- his confirmation.

For years, transit agencies and other companies have been harassed by a patent troll seeking to extort them for "settlements" when they use real-time vehicle tracking technologies. ArrivalStar and Melvino Technologies, offshore firms led by one Martin Kelly Jones, claim to hold the rights to those ideas.

That’s Secretary Foxx to You — Or, It Will Be at the End of This Week (The Hill) Will EPA Nominee Gina McCarthy Be Sacrificed at the Altar of Obama’s Climate Initiative? (WaPo) VA Gubernatorial Candidates Cross Party Lines in Campaign Talk About McDonnell’s Transpo Bill (NBC) Bicycles Outnumber Cars on London Bridges (London SE1) South Carolina’s … Continued

Will Obama’s New Climate Initiative Get the U.S. Down to Target Emissions Levels? (WaPo) … Maybe Not, Since It Doesn’t Appear to Address Transportation (Grist) … But Will It Finally Empower Congress to Pass a Carbon Tax? (The Hill) Current Tax Code Isn’t Up to the Task of Reducing Emissions, Needs Reform (HuffPo, Politico) How Rising … Continued

In 1901, there were 10,000 motor vehicles in the United States.

We’ve spent this week exploring the ways in which the Department of Defense is overhauling its master planning procedures to turn their sprawling military bases into compact, walkable communities with mixed-use development and town centers. They’re hoping to bring back some of the people who have moved off base in recent decades, with the promise of a more livable community. Streetsblog had the chance to talk to Michael McAndrew, director of facility investment and management for the deputy under secretary of defense. McAndrew has helped guide this process from the inside.