Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Federal Transit Administration

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Opinion: Buttigieg's Midwest Roots Will Help Him at USDOT

By Kea Wilson | Feb 4, 2021 | No Comments

Is Buttigieg a hayseed Hoosier who wouldn't know a headway from a harvester, or a political ecoterrorist hellbent on leaving rural American in the lurch and laughing all the way to the Amtrak station? Neither: He's a guy from South Bend.

What Secretary Pete Could Mean for the US DOT

By Kea Wilson | Dec 15, 2020 | No Comments

Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has been tapped to be Secretary of Transportation. Whatever you think, remember that this guy is one of the few politicians who acknowledges the "many ways we subsidize driving." So there's that.

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Trump’s ‘Anarchist’ Ruling Could Hurt Transit in 3 Cities

By Julianne Cuba | Oct 14, 2020 | No Comments

The president threatened to cut funding to those cities — and, apparently, his agencies have gotten the memo.

Congress Sells Out Non-Drivers with New FAST Act

By Kea Wilson | Sep 23, 2020 | No Comments

Congress passed a short-term spending bill that will renew funding for our existing car-focused infrastructure, missing an opportunity to reform a broken system that's killing our planet and its people.

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Report: We Must Divert Money from Driving to Transit

By Gersh Kuntzman | Sep 10, 2020 | No Comments

The federal government needs an entirely different way of funding transportation — one that would finally allocate billions of dollars that currently subsidize and encourage driving to fund and expand transit, a new report argues.

Federal Corona Bill Seems Generous To Transit. It’s Not.

By Kea Wilson | Apr 8, 2020 | No Comments

New crisis, same old mistakes. The Federal Transit Administration’s $25-billion COVID-19 public transit grant package contains much-needed lifelines for struggling transit agencies across the country — but the amount received by each agency did not take into account the new reality of the virus, but were allocated using the same formulas from normal years. As a […]

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