Tanya Snyder

If you were hoping the Senate would swoop in and save the day after the House voted to cut $785 million from the transportation budget, you might be disappointed. Politico's Burgess Everett reports that Senate Appropriations Chair Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) isn't planning to present an alternative transportation budget proposal. Mikulski is considering rolling several appropriations bills into a "hybrid" continuing resolution bill, but transportation isn't one of them.

If bicyclists want to convince policymakers of the benefits of cycling, they need to stop talking about cycling. That was one major lesson of this year’s National Bike Summit, thanks to some strategic research done by a friendly consultant. So the Summit’s theme was “Bicycling Means Business” – and the economic impacts of a healthy cycling culture don’t end with the cyclist.

Tuesday morning, Rep. Earl Blumenauer took his usual place behind the podium at the National Bike Summit. (He never misses a Bike Summit.)

When you talk to policy-makers, do you complain about how bicyclists lost out in the last transportation reauthorization and demand that cycling get its “fair share” of funding? Do you tell them that more and more people are riding bikes, and maybe they ought to try it too?

Why would a representative from AAA be the keynote speaker at the National Bike Summit?

The Economist’s “Gulliver” Blog Echoes Brookings’ Call  to Eliminate Amtraks’ Long Routes  VIDEO: Bike-Builder Georgena Terry Kicks Off Women’s Bike Forum (Bike League)  Disabled Vet Rep. Tammy Duckworth Calls Bicycles a Great “Leveler” (Bike Portland) On the Heels of Virginia Decision, Maryland Leaders Announce Transportation Plan (WBAL) Coalition for Smarter Growth Dreams Big, Maps Out a Plan For Next … Continued

Everything you think you know about bicycling is wrong. At the National Women’s Bicycling Forum this morning, one message came through: the underrepresentation of women and people of color in cycling isn't simply due to safety concerns and lack of protected infrastructure, as is often surmised. It's more complicated than that.

In a sense, there’s not much to say about the joint appearance at the AASHTO conference yesterday of House Transportation Committee Chair Bill Shuster and Senate EPW Chair Barbara Boxer. They thanked AASHTO for all its help getting MAP-21 passed. They addressed the big question of how to raise revenues without actually making any proposals. They agreed that infrastructure should be a non-partisan issue. None of these are breaking news.

States Rush in to Fill the Federal Funding Gap (Governing) If Only Our Infrastructure Budget Were as Generous as Afghanistan’s (WaPo) LaHood: We Need a Long-Term Transpo Bill, We Get This “Dumb” Sequester (CCJ) Another Legal Victory for California High-Speed Rail (Mercury) Miami-Dade Mayor Makes Plea for Transit (Herald) Washingtonians the Only Americans Who Can … Continued

The consequences of the near-certain sequester for aviation have been well publicized by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood's recent media blitz, but less well-known are the effects for surface transportation.