Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Transportation Funding

Finally Transit Is Included in CA Transportation Funding Discussions

By Melanie Curry | Aug 17, 2015 | 17 Comments

On Friday, in separate press events in Los Angeles and San Francisco, several members of the California legislature presented new bills for consideration in the ongoing legislative special session on transportation funding. Various estimates put California’s backlog of deferred road maintenance in the $100-plus-billion range. The special sessions, which involve the creation of new committees […]

US Senate Banking Committee Slow to Take Up Transit Portion of Transpo Bill

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 20, 2015 | No Comments

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has unanimously passed the highway portion of a six-year transportation bill. The Commerce Committee has done its work on the rail and safety portion. The Finance Committee has the hardest job, the one that’s flummoxed Capitol Hill for six years now, but it’s held a hearing on transportation […]

Reps Pelosi and Lieu Tout ‘Grow America’ Transportation Bill

By Joe Linton | Jul 17, 2015 | No Comments

U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi speaking on federal transportation funding at this morning’s event. Photo: Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A. Elected officials, labor leaders, and Metro’s CEO assembled this morning to call on Congress to pass a long-term transportation bill. In order to highlight the ways that transportation infrastructure funding benefits communities, the press event showcased the bluff […]

Senate Preserves TIGER Program While House Punts on Long-Term Bill

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 16, 2015 | No Comments

Advocates successfully mobilized to prevent the Senate from eliminating the multi-modal TIGER grant program in its long-term transportation bill, but that bill appears to be on hold for at least another five months after the House passed another short-term extension of the current law. Transportation for America reports that Senate Commerce Committee Chair John Thune […]

Washington State’s Faustian Bargain to Fund Transit

By Brad Aaron | Jun 30, 2015 | No Comments

Washington Governor Jay Inslee and state legislators have agreed to enable funding for a major Seattle transit expansion, but the deal comes with drawbacks. If approved, the state would fund a $15 billion package of transportation projects and, separately, authorize Sound Transit to raise $15 billion to expand light rail via regional taxes. Martin H. […]

Brace Yourself: Here Comes Another Attack on Bike/Ped Funding

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 9, 2015 | No Comments

If petty Congressional attacks on bike/ped funding were a drinking game, you’d be drunk by now. And now two House Republicans want to pour you another shot. Reps. Sam Johnson (TX) and Vicky Hartzler (MO) have introduced a bill to eliminate the Transportation Alternatives Program, the largest source of federal funding for biking and walking […]

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