Today’s Headlines

Previewing tonight’s "Blueprint America" episode on the path Detroit must take to build a future apart from the auto industry; check it out on PBS at 10pm (NYT)

Dallas looking ahead to the transportation challenges it will face while hosting Super Bowl 2011 (Morn News)

A new study from the Economic Policy Institute finds that Transportation for America’s proposed transport stimulus would create 480,000 direct jobs (EDF Press)

Denver’s FasTrax transit master plan gets a $300m boost from Washington (D. Post)

In Seattle, one councilman envisions new elevated light rail running alongside I-405 (S. Times)

LaHood concerned that rising use of in-car technology could be exacerbating driver distraction (Autoblog)

As Congress gears up its investigation of the company’s recall debacle, Toyota’s troubles are just beginning (AP)

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By Angie Schmitt | Jun 6, 2012

$10,860 in New York City. $5,694 in St. Louis. $4,199 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. That’s what it will cost you, on average, in additional transportation costs to live in a sprawling, car-dependent neighborhood over one that is well-connected and transit-rich. That’s according to a new analysis by the Center for Neighborhood Technology, produced for Better Cities […]

Transportation for America Releases Blueprint for Transportation Reform

By Sarah Goodyear | May 11, 2009

Today Transportation for America is releasing a 100-page document called "The Route to Reform," in which they outline policy recommendations related to the upcoming reauthorization of federal transportation funding legislation (download the executive summary here or the full report here). From the executive summary: The next transportation program must set about the urgent task of […]

8 Senate Dems Join Industry in a Gas-Tax Warning to Climate Bill’s Authors

By Elana Schor | Apr 5, 2010

As Sens. John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) prepare to unveil a new climate change measure that includes a tax on motor fuels, eight of their colleagues are urging the trio not to forget local transportation planning — and warning that any new gas tax should be used to help pay […]

Transit Industry to Join State DOTs in Blasting Senate Climate Bill

By Elana Schor | May 18, 2010

The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) is set to join the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and two construction interests tomorrow in protesting the Senate climate bill’s proposed diversion of new fuel fees away from infrastructure — an argument that puts the transit industry’s leading D.C. lobbying group squarely in the […]

You Can Open Your Eyes Now: Budget Deal Spares Transpo the Worst

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 11, 2011

It’s Monday morning, and the government is open for business. In a last-minute agreement just an hour before the current budget extension was to expire Friday night, Democrats and Republicans avoided the nuclear option of a government shutdown. They cut $38.5 billion from the 2010 budget; $78.5 billion from President Obama’s 2011 budget proposal. Some […]

The Elephant in the Room

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 5, 2017

Transportation engineer Ian Lockwood is not only a leading voice within the profession for safer, multi-modal streets, he's also an amateur cartoonist known for skewering the absurdity in the modern transportation industry. Streetsblog is pleased to announce that we'll be featuring a new cartoon from Ian every month.