Tanya Snyder

This is the last time I’ll ask.

Ari Maron had no friends.

On Thursday, U.S. DOT announced the 47 people who will make up the new Freight Advisory Committee, tasked with coming up with a cohesive, strategic vision around freight movement in the United States. Freight crosses state lines and travels on every mode imaginable, but there is no national agency to coordinate all this movement of goods, resulting in a chaotic and fragmented approach divided among several decision-making bodies. With any luck, the new advisory committee will attach some smart national priorities to freight movement and set policy accordingly.

FTA’s Rogoff: “Every Transit Rider Owes a Huge Debt of Gratitude to Sen. Frank Lautenberg” (WNYC) TSTC Calls on Gov. Christie to Replace Sen. Lautenberg With Another Transit Hero… … But Don’t Count on It (Atlantic Wire) It Really Is Your Father’s Oldsmobile: Young People Buying Fewer Cars (U of Michigan) China’s New Pollution Tax … Continued

It's a sad day for Amtrak. New Jersey Democrat Frank Lautenberg has died.

LaHood Tells Govs: “Congress Needs to Find $500 or $600 billion and Pass a 5-Year Bill” (Detroit News) LaHood Promises $185M in Federal Funds For New York Gateway Project (Railway Gazette) NHTSA Looks to Future of Self-Driving Cars, Seeks to Regulate It (LAT) More Crumbling Bridges, This Time Over the Columbia Gorge (Boise Weekly) Moscow, … Continued

Poor Ford.

The answer to that question is: Probably not. Reps. Daniel Lipinski, a Democrat from Chicago, and Michael Grimm, a Republican representing Staten Island and a little slice of Brooklyn, announced their new transit-focused Congressional caucus just last week, and this week the House has been in recess.

At the local level, business has been a key force in cementing transit victories. But at a national level, the business voice has been largely absent from heated, high-stakes debates about transit. With a new report called “Bosses For Buses,” Good Jobs First investigates the disparity between local- and national-level organizing efforts by employers.

Let’s get one thing clear: People of color ride bikes. They commute to work on bikes. They ride for pleasure. It saves them money and time, and it keeps them healthy.