Ray LaHood
LaHood: Rail-Trails Are the Best Health Care Program
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood became a darling of the bicycling advocacy community last year when he jumped up on a table at the National Bike Summit and affirmed his support for biking, later declaring "the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of non-motorized."
October 12, 2011
TIGER III Will Grant $527 Million For Innovative Transportation Projects
It’s TIGER III time. The first round was $1.5 billion. The second round was $600 million. And now, get ready for round three. After surviving countless threats by budget-cutting Republicans in Congress, TIGER is back, granting $527 million for innovative transportation projects.
June 30, 2011
Transportation Sec. Ray LaHood Answers Streetsblog Readers’ Questions
Last month, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood invited Streetsblog readers to submit questions for a Q&A installment on his blog, Fast Lane. Here are his answers. (For maximum effect, picture the secretary delivering these remarks while standing on a table.)
June 30, 2011
LaHood Defends Amtrak Against GOP Privatization Plan
In an email statement to Streetsblog, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood expressed concerns about the GOP plan to privatize the Northeast Corridor:
June 15, 2011
Ray LaHood Wants to Hear From Streetsblog Readers
Have a question for Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood? He's all ears. He has been doing a series of video chats where he responds to questions from the public.
June 13, 2011
Don’t Hold Your Breath for a White House Transportation Bill
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told reporters today that the administration sent its draft bill to Capitol Hill two weeks ago. “It’s with the people that it needs to be with,” LaHood said, “the staff that’s working on a bill.”
May 12, 2011
“Grab a Hold of Your Shorts”: Mica and LaHood Talk Transportation Bill
This morning, House Transportation Committee Chair John Mica told transit professionals gathered at the American Public Transportation Association’s legislative conference that he’s still hoping to pass a bill out of the House by May in order to get it signed before September 30, when the current extension of SAFETEA-LU expires. “It’ll be very difficult after that,” he said. “Because of the presidential ‘happy season,’ major legislation sometimes gets left behind.”
March 15, 2011
Boxer Pushes LaHood on Financing for Transportation
Senator Barbara Boxer got down to brass tacks on transportation funding in a committee hearing yesterday, even as DOT Secretary Ray LaHood remained vague on how to pay for the president's ambitious proposal. Boxer said she’s not in favor of raising the gas tax, but she’d like it to be indexed to inflation. “We don’t even know if the president would go that far with us,” she said, but clearly something needs to be done.
March 10, 2011
LaHood Kicks Off National Bike Summit
On the first night of the National Bike Summit, Secretary Ray LaHood told an enormous hotel ballroom filled with cycling advocates about his childhood riding bikes in Peoria, Illinois and reminded them that they need to work harder than ever to convince Congress to support cycling.
March 8, 2011