Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Transportation Funding

Board of Supes Passes Resolution Urging Free Lifeline Youth Passes

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 16, 2011 | 14 Comments

A proposal to give thousands of low-income public school students free Muni passes is on its way to the SFMTA Board for approval after the Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday. It followed a passionate show of support from dozens of speakers at Monday’s City Operations and Neighborhood Services Committee hearing. “We need […]

Obama Budget Proposes $556B, Long-term Transportation Bill

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 14, 2011 | No Comments

The White House hasn’t released its FY2012 budget request yet. What we know so far is that it’s a $3.7 trillion budget that would reduce the deficit from $1.6 trillion projected for 2011 to $1.2 trillion next year. President Obama “trims or terminates” more than 200 federal programs, according to the Washington Post, but has […]

House Transpo Committee Promises Bipartisanship, To Tackle Aviation First

By Noah Kazis | Jan 26, 2011 | No Comments

Meet the new House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. The committee’s meeting this morning, the first of the 112th Congress, included twenty new Republican faces, 19 of whom are freshman representatives. The mostly administrative agenda didn’t offer many chances for the committee members to talk policy, but even some of the freshmen’s short introductions proved potentially […]

Public Transit Funding Slightly Better in Jerry Brown’s Proposed Budget

By Bryan Goebel | Jan 11, 2011 | 3 Comments

For the first time in three years, California public transit agencies could see a full dose of funding from the State Transit Assistance (STA) fund, thanks in large part to the passage of Proposition 22, which prevents legislators from raiding local government funds, and Governor Jerry Brown, who announced his “painful” budget plan yesterday. The […]

California’s Climate Laws Undermined by Weak Transpo Policies, Investment

By Bryan Goebel | Dec 14, 2010 | 3 Comments

A new report from NRDC and Smart Growth America — which examines what all 50 states are doing to curb greenhouse gas emissions from transportation — lauds California as the most progressive state on policy, but points out that its transportation and spending priorities don’t match the bold blueprints, particularly as it relates to public […]

Planners Expect Public-Private Partnership to Lower Doyle Drive Costs

By Matthew Roth | Nov 15, 2010 | 5 Comments

The Presidio Parkway/Doyle Drive project will move into the second phase of construction early next year, but planners are already touting a unique public-private partnership, or P3 in their shorthand, which they say forges a new model for delivering massive infrastructure projects for less money and greater financial oversight. Assuming all the necessary approvals are […]

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