Recent Streetsblog SF posts about U.S. DOT

State Transpo Officials Push to Toll for Maintenance, Not Just Capacity

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 8, 2011 | No Comments

Last week, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told state DOT officials gathered at an AASHTO conference in Washington that he was all in favor of tolling – but only to add new capacity. Iowa DOT Director Nancy Richardson wants tolls to pay for maintenance, not new capacity. Photo: Iowa DOT “We believe in tolling,” LaHood said. […]

California High Speed Rail Central Valley Corridor Gets Federal Grant

By Matthew Roth | Oct 28, 2010 | No Comments

The U.S. Department of Transportation announced $2.4 billion in grants for high speed and commuter rail projects around the country today, including $900 million for various portions of California’s rail network and High-Speed Rail project. US DOT Secretary Ray LaHood compared the initial investment in high-speed rail networks across the country under the Obama Administration […]

Obama Admin Will Make Its Transportation Push During the Next Congress

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 28, 2010 | No Comments

President Obama is “going to throw his support behind a six-year reauthorization of the transportation program” in Congress. That was the word today from Roy Kienitz, who represented the Transportation Department today as he testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. In a meeting with transportation reform advocates last week, Secretary Ray LaHood […]

Applications for TIGER II Funding Overwhelm What U.S. DOT Can Dish Out

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 27, 2010 | No Comments

For every dollar awarded from the U.S. DOT’s TIGER II grant program, there are more than $30 that applicants are asking for but won’t be getting. That’s the word from the DOT, which announced on Friday that it had received about $19 billion in applications for nearly 1,000 projects “from all 50 states, U.S. territories […]

Will the Next Merit-Based Transpo Program Rock Harder Than TIGER?

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 20, 2010 | No Comments

Experts are still trying to make sense of President Obama’s $50 billion plan for infrastructure spending, announced on Labor Day and later characterized as an upfront investment on a larger, multi-year transportation bill. More than a hundred people gathered at the Brookings Institution last Thursday looking to learn more about where the administration and Congress […]

On Transpo Bill, Administration Wants Congress to Sort Out The Details

By Adam Voiland | Sep 17, 2010 | No Comments

At a networking event for young transportation professionals yesterday, a member of the Department of Transportation’s policy team offered insight into the Obama administration’s strategy as it attempts to reset the nation’s transportation polices. Federal lawmakers usually set transportation policy by authorizing a major spending bill every five or six years. The last of these […]

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