Recent Streetsblog SF posts about U.S. Senate

Will the SFMTA Gut Muni Improvements to Prop Up the Central Subway?

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 6, 2012 | 11 Comments

The Central Subway’s latest funding troubles with Congress have brought some burning questions to the surface: How far will the SFMTA go to prop up the project, and what will the price be for Muni riders? The U.S. House of Representatives approved an amendment to an annual appropriations bill last week that would block $850 […]

Advocates to Boxer: Save Funds for Safe Streets, Don’t Let House Gut NEPA

By Damien Newton and Tanya Snyder | Jun 22, 2012 | No Comments

(Note: Much of this story comes from “Making Lawmakers Answer for Pedestrian Deaths in Their Districts” that appeared on Streetsblog Capitol Hill yesterday.) No matter how you count it, California is a dangerous place for pedestrians. A recent report by Transportation for America showed that nearly 7,000 pedestrians were killed in California’s streets between 2001 […]

Boxer Changes Her Tone, Adopts a Fighting Stance

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 14, 2012 | No Comments

The transportation bill conference committee negotiations have been difficult and contentious, by all accounts — all except Senator Barbara Boxer’s account. The EPW chair has been optimistic when others have been bitter, consistently focusing on how much the two sides agree rather than the places where they’re still far apart. But that seemed to change with […]

House Transportation Bill: What’s at Stake for the Bay Area

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 15, 2012 | No Comments

Reliable transit and safer streets in San Francisco and the Bay Area could be crippled by what U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood has called “the worst transportation bill [he’s] ever seen” making its way through the U.S. House of Representatives. As Streetsblog Capitol Hill has been reporting, H.R. 7, the federal transportation bill being pushed by House […]

Dealbreaker: Senate Rejects House Budget Due to Lack of Car Subsidies

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 23, 2011 | No Comments

What’s keeping Congress from passing an extension to the federal budget? Democratic protection of automobile subsidies. After midnight last night, the House finally managed to narrowly pass a budget extension bill, but Senate leaders have already rejected it out of hand, since it includes about half the disaster relief they’d like and cuts $1.5 billion […]

Federal Support for Smart Planning Is on the Line Today

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 20, 2011 | No Comments

A Senate panel will vote today on two budget bills for FY2012, one of which is for transportation and housing programs. The draft of the bill isn’t available until after the subcommittee markup today, but Smart Growth America is calling attention to the fact that it’s important to make sure the bill includes funding for […]

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