Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about USDOT

Jeanie Ward Waller, now Caltrans Deputy Director
for Planning & Modal Programs, and Dr. Steven Cliff, newly confirmed Administrator of the NHTSA. Photo: Melanie Curry/ Streetsblog

Steven Cliff, from California Air Resources Board, Appointed Acting Head of National Highway and Traffic Safety

By Melanie Curry | Jan 22, 2021 | No Comments

It's a strategic move that sends the unequivocal message that the new President is committed to incorporating environmental concerns in every corner of federal policy making.

Memo to Buttigieg: USDOT Needs an Active Transportation Administration

By Kea Wilson | Jan 21, 2021 | No Comments

Giving people who walk and roll a voice in Washington is a crucial tool in the fight to change the federal structures that underlie our car-only transportation landscape.

Cheap Federal Loans Key to Infrastructure

By Roger Rudick | Jan 14, 2021 | No Comments

There's $100 billion in low-cost loans that the U.S. DOT can lend tomorrow for infrastructure projects, including rail and transit.

Nominee Buttigieg Vows To Dismantle ‘Racist’ Freeways

By Aaron Short | Dec 22, 2020 | No Comments

“It’s disproportionately Black and brown neighborhoods that were divided by highway projects because they didn’t have the political capital to resist,” Buttigieg said on Sunday. "We have a chance to get that right.”

What Secretary Pete Could Mean for the USDOT

By Kea Wilson | Dec 16, 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.

Fed Pedestrian Safety ‘Action’ Plan Light on Action, Heavy on Studies

By Kea Wilson | Dec 1, 2020 | No Comments

Ending the pedestrian death crisis will take real money, policy and cultural change — not just another government report with a laundry list of missed opportunities, proposed research and little else.

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