Transportation Funding
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US Senate Banking Committee Slow to Take Up Transit Portion of Transpo Bill
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has unanimously passed the highway portion of a six-year transportation bill. The Commerce Committee has done its work on the rail and safety portion. The Finance Committee has the hardest job, the one that’s flummoxed Capitol Hill for six years now, but it’s held a hearing on transportation funding and Committee Chair Orrin Hatch says he’s confident they’ll get it done. But it’s the Banking Committee, with jurisdiction over transit, that’s the least far along with its work to complete a transportation bill.
July 20, 2015
Reps Pelosi and Lieu Tout ‘Grow America’ Transportation Bill
U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi speaking on federal transportation funding at this morning's event. Photo: Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.
July 17, 2015
Senate Preserves TIGER Program While House Punts on Long-Term Bill
Advocates successfully mobilized to prevent the Senate from eliminating the multi-modal TIGER grant program in its long-term transportation bill, but that bill appears to be on hold for at least another five months after the House passed another short-term extension of the current law.
July 16, 2015
Washington State’s Faustian Bargain to Fund Transit
Washington Governor Jay Inslee and state legislators have agreed to enable funding for a major Seattle transit expansion, but the deal comes with drawbacks.
June 30, 2015
Brace Yourself: Here Comes Another Attack on Bike/Ped Funding
If petty Congressional attacks on bike/ped funding were a drinking game, you'd be drunk by now. And now two House Republicans want to pour you another shot.
June 9, 2015
California Transportation Commission: We Can’t Rely on the Gas Tax
The California Transportation Committee, Fresno Chamber of Commerce, San Joaquin Valley Regional Transportation Agencies and Fresno Economic Development Corporation held their first of seven public forums in Downtown Fresno Wednesday on California’s transportation issues.
May 28, 2015
Caltrans Awards $9.8 Million in Sustainable Transportation Planning Grants
California's Department of Transportation released a list of over 51 cash grants it will allocate for local planning efforts focused on sustainable transportation.
May 6, 2015
R’s and D’s Agree State Needs More Transp. Dollars, Disagree on Source
In his 2015 State of the State, Governor Jerry Brown challenged the state legislature to come up with a funding formula that is both fair and that creates a sustainable funding stream for the state’s transportation trust fund. While the federal government continues to struggle to fund the national seemingly-always-beleagured Transportation Trust Fund, California now has three competing funding measures on the table, including one that is backed by the state's Senate Republican Caucus.
April 27, 2015