Today’s Headlines

GOP Senate leaders starting to embrace a delay in new "cash for clunkers" money … (WSJ)

… but that may not matter, now that Feinstein and Collins have stopped calling for stronger fuel-efficiency standards (Fox News)

Headed into August recess, the climate-change demands pile up for Boxer & Kerry (ClimateWire)

Lu Young, namesake of the 2005 "SAFETEA-LU" transportation bill, passes away (ADN.com)

Orange County, CA, using stimulus money for highway-widening (Streetsblog LA)

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Stimulus Bill Is a Step Forward for Pedestrians, Cyclists & Cities

By Ben Fried | Feb 18, 2009

Within the $27.5 billion allocated for "highways" in the stimulus bill signed by President Obama yesterday, there is some good news for pedestrians, cyclists and cities. I spoke with Michelle Ernst, staff analyst at the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, to get a sense of how the new legislation compares to the 2005 federal transportation bill, known […]

What’s Wrong With SAFETEA-LU — and Why the Next Bill Must Be Better

By Yonah Freemark | Apr 27, 2009

Editor’s note: This year’s reauthorization of the federal transportation funding bill will be one of the most important opportunities in history for the nation’s advocates of livable streets, sustainable transportation and smart growth. But it’s going to be a complicated process. We’d like to demystify it for you, and to that end we’ll be featuring […]

House to Vote on 9th Transpo Extension Just as Time and Money Run Out

By Ben Goldman | Mar 22, 2012

Reps. John Mica, Dave Camp, and John Duncan have formally introduced a bill that would extend federal transportation programs until June 30, without any changes to funding, policy, or gas taxes. It is officially known as H.R. 4239. The 90-day extension would be the ninth passed since the last long-term transportation bill, SAFETEA-LU, expired in […]

Today’s Headlines

By Ben Goldman | Feb 16, 2012

Check Out Transportation For America‘s Senate Bill Amendment Tracker Harry Reid Proposes Amendments to Senate Bill, Sets Up Next Cloture Vote (Politico) With Gas Tax Money Vanishing, Bills Mum on What Comes Next (HuffPo) Nat’l Employment Law Project’s Anastasia Christman: House Bill Bad for Jobs (Hill) Member of Commission to Replace SAFETEA-LU Weighs in on […]

How MAP-21 Allocates Transpo Funds Where They’re Needed Least

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 3, 2012

Transportation reauthorizations have typically not been a time for major discussions about national policy goals. They’ve been a time for getting while the getting’s good, a time for deal-making and pork and a lot of back-room transactions to make sure every member of Congress could go home and talk about how much federal money they […]

Two Infrastructure Jobs Bills Die in Senate

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 4, 2011

Two competing versions of a transportation-related job creation bill went down yesterday in the Senate. The first, the Rebuild America Jobs Act (S.1769), was a Democratic proposal, modeled on President Obama’s job creation bill, to invest $50 billion for infrastructure and another $10 billion as seed money to create a new national infrastructure bank. Given Republican […]