How the U.S. Transportation System Fuels Inequality
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Transportation policies prioritizing private vehicle use leave the poor and people of color behind.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Campaign Contributions
Report: Real Estate Interests Spent $5.5M on Transport Lobbying in 2009
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In the debate over how — and whether — to set measurable performance standards for determining where federal transportation money gets spent, real estate developers are a quiet but powerful player. In a report released today, the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) tracked the broad reach of land-use interests and found more than 100 groups […]
Climate’s 17 Undecided Dems Got $2.3M From Transport & Electric Lobbies
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The trouble with broad analysis pieces on campaign cash is that they often go for eye-popping numbers while obscuring uncomfortable political realities. For example, Greenwire reported this morning that the 27 senators who remain undecided on the chamber’s pending climate bill took "more than $20 million … over the past two decades from energy interests […]
Report: After MN Collapse, Bridge Repair Got Just 11% of D.C. Earmarks
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In the wake of the 2007 collapse of Minnesota’s I-35 bridge, Washington policymakers vowed a renewed focus on repairing the nation’s aging infrastructure. But weeks after the fatal collapse, Congress approved a transportation spending bill with 704 earmarked projects, at a total cost topping $570 million — and just 11 percent of those earmarks went […]
New Investigation Finds 2,100 Transport Lobbyists Working the System
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Interest groups seeking to influence transportation policy-making have long flooded the capital with campaign cash and lobbyists — and their numbers are rising at an eye-popping rate. Nearly 1,800 interests are employing at least 2,100 transportation lobbyists to work the system in anticipation of the next federal infrastructure bill, according to a Center for Public […]
Know Your Transportation Lobbyists: Transit Beats Roads — Sort Of
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Transportation lobbying is a complicated universe, in which multi-issue environmental groups can be as active as organizations that exist only to influence infrastructure decision-making. But to shed some more light on a cast of characters that Streetsblog Capitol Hill began introducing last month, it’s worth exploring who represents Washington’s two largest transportation players and how […]