Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Federal Transit Administration

Bond Voyage! Houston Faces $3.5B Transit Decision

By Aaron Short | Aug 19, 2019

Houston has a once in a generation opportunity to modernize its transit system this fall — and the city hopes to learn from Nashville's mistakes.

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 17, 2019 | 7 Comments

Administration delay tactics have made applying for transit construction funding much more costly and difficult.

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 19, 2019 | 21 Comments

About $2.7 billion in funds for transit projects remains in a state of limbo at the Trump U.S. DOT.

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 11, 2019 | 114 Comments

He wants to cut funding for new transit projects 35 percent and slash Amtrak funding. But Congress has ignored him in the past.

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 29, 2018 | 4 Comments

Trump's Federal Transit Administration is finally releasing long-ago-approved funding for major projects.

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 29, 2018 | 11 Comments

Donald Trump has been threatening to derail the nation's largest metro economy as leverage to get his border wall.