Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Transportation Enhancements

A New Bill Passes, But America’s Transpo Policy Stays Stuck in 20th Century

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 29, 2012 | 11 Comments

The House of Representatives approved the transportation bill conference report this afternoon by a vote of 373 to 52. [UPDATE 4:00 PM: The Senate has also approved the bill, 74-19.] This is a bill that’s been called “a death blow to mass transit” by the Amalgamated Transit Union, “a step backwards for America’s transportation system” […]

Transpo Bill Cuts Bike/Ped Funding, Lets States Spend It on Left-Turn Lanes

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 28, 2012 | 10 Comments

NOTE: The facts are even worse than they seemed when I wrote this article. States can flex TA money, not just to CMAQ, but to anything they want. See “The Awful Truth About the Transpo Bill’s Bike/Ped Loophole,” for more. In the transportation bill agreed to yesterday by Barbara Boxer, John Mica, and other Congressional […]

Top 10 Reasons Sen. Boxer Must Keep Her Word on Bike/Ped Programs

By Andy Clarke | Jun 22, 2012 | 3 Comments

This post originally appeared on www.bikeleague.org. The author is the president of the League of American Bicyclists. For the past 20 years, local elected officials have been given rare access to state transportation funds through a handful of programs administered by state Departments of Transportation as grant programs. These also happen to be the primary […]

House Attack on Safe Streets Makes Transpo Bill Ever More Elusive

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 11, 2012 | 4 Comments

We reported last week that the House had proposed allowing states to “opt out” of funding bicycle and pedestrian safety improvements in its counter-offer to the Senate during transportation bill negotiations. The House GOP essentially wants to reject the Cardin-Cochran amendment, which gave local governments control over half the “Additional Activities” funding set aside for […]

House GOP Threatens to Wipe Out Local Control Over Bike/Ped Funding

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 8, 2012 | 2 Comments

The House GOP couldn’t pass a transportation bill of their own, so now they want to undo one of the major bi-partisan achievements in the Senate transportation bill. As part of its counter-offer to the Senate in conference committee negotiations over the transportation bill, the House appears to be proposing the elimination of the Cardin-Cochran […]

Tea Party Republicans Take Aim at Bike-Ped Funding in Conference

By Tanya Snyder | May 23, 2012 | 5 Comments

Although Senate Republicans had hoped the carefully crafted compromise over the Transportation Enhancements program would stand, some House members are stating their insistence that the program be stripped out entirely in conference. Transportation Enhancements is the primary source of funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects. It comprises less than two percent of total federal transportation […]

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