Today’s Headlines

Local coverage of T4A’s report on transit cuts (Detroit News, SF Chron, Sac Biz Journ, WaPo)

Birmingham, home of PBS’ "zombie highway," rocked by bribery guilty plea (Bloomberg)

Highway projects (and transit ones, too) are stalling thanks to funding uncertainty in Congress (CQ)

Ford’s new electric car can "talk" to the grid to regulate power usage (AP)

D.C. transit’s summer woes continue (Balt. Sun)

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The U.S. Wants to “Borrow” From Transit to Pay for Highways

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 29, 2008

U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said yesterday that due to declining gas tax revenues, the Highway Trust Fund would need to borrow money from its mass transit account to pay for road projects. Today’s big news story was buried at the bottom of page A17 in the New York Times: Gasoline tax revenue is falling […]

Six Lies the GOP Is Telling About the House Transportation Bill

By Ben Fried and Ben Goldman | Feb 9, 2012

The transportation-plus-drilling bill that John Boehner and company are trying to ram through the House is an attack on transit riders, pedestrians, cyclists, city dwellers, and every American who can’t afford to drive everywhere. Under this bill, all the dedicated federal funding streams for transit, biking, and walking would disappear, leading to widespread service cuts […]

But What About the Highways-Transit Split?

By Elana Schor | Jun 18, 2009

As transit fans and policy wonks digest the details of House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar’s (D-MN) new proposal, one question is coming to mind: Does it change the typical 80-20 split in the percentage of funding that goes to highways versus transit? The short answer is, not really. While road programs got […]

New Stimulus Data: Road Funds 77% Under Contract, Transit at 74%

By Elana Schor | Mar 26, 2010

As of the end of February, nearly $5.4 billion of transit stimulus money, or 74 percent, was under contract for projects in the 50 states and D.C., according to a Streetsblog Capitol Hill analysis of data released today by the House transportation committee. (Photo: DMI Blog) The success rate of transit stimulus spending was slightly […]

The Problem With Park-and-Rides

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 26, 2013

There it is, at your typical American suburban transit stop: a parking lot — a free one, probably. The intent of park-and-ride service is to enable people who live in car-centric places to take transit to work. But Ben Schiendelman at Seattle Transit Blog has been thinking it over, and he doesn’t believe park-and-rides are such […]

Seattle’s Struggle to Keep the Transit in Its “Tunnel Plus Transit” Plan

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 15, 2015

Back when Seattle and the state of Washington made the (regrettable) decision to replace the aging Alaskan Way Viaduct with an underground highway, the consolation was that the elevated highway running between downtown and the waterfront would come down and make way for a nice surface street with dedicated transit lanes. Proponents of the deep bore tunnel even gave their plan […]