Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Transportation Funding

Bay Area Transportation Commission Starts Climate Sustainability Fund

By Matthew Roth | Dec 21, 2009 | 4 Comments

Transportation advocates were thrilled last week when the nine-county Bay Area regional transportation planning and funding body, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), established a fluid pot of money for innovative transportation projects, from Safe Routes to School programs and bicycle educational campaigns, to parking policies and demand management strategies meant to reduce the over-reliance on […]

Another Court Decision in Favor of California Transit Agencies

By Matthew Roth | Dec 17, 2009 | 1 Comment

Photo: Thomas Hawk In another rebuff to California’s practice of moving spillover funding from the State Transit Assistance (STA) fund to fill the hole in the state’s General Fund, a Superior Court ruled on Monday that the state had to pay back the approximately $1.2 billion it diverted from transit operators in the 2007-2008 budget […]

LaHood Visits The Daily Show to Talk Transportation

By Elana Schor | Dec 16, 2009 | No Comments

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Ray LaHood www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood visited Jon Stewart on The Daily Show last night to talk about his department’s role in the stimulus debate, infrastructure modernization, and development of a U.S. high-speed […]

Conservative Tea Party Movement Targets Florida Rail Plan

By Elana Schor | Dec 4, 2009 | 2 Comments

The conservative "tea party" movement, last seen complaining about the government-funded local transit system that they took during an anti-government march in Washington D.C, is veering back to form in Florida with an organized protest against the state’s proposal for broad new investments in rail transit. The "Tea Party" is now a registered political party […]

Report: Road Funding From Non-Road Users Doubled in 25 Years

By Elana Schor | Dec 4, 2009 | 7 Comments

(Image: Subsidyscope) The myth that U.S. roads "pay for themselves" thanks to user fees is a subject that’s likely familiar to many Streetsblog readers — but just how much of the nation’s highway funding is provided by charging drivers? The answer may surprise even active critics of the current asphalt-centric transportation system. Between 1982 and […]

Pelosi: Passing a Wall Street Transport Tax Would Require Overseas Buy-in

By Elana Schor | Nov 19, 2009 | No Comments

Any proposal to fund new U.S. infrastructure investment by taxing financial transactions — such as Rep. Pete DeFazio’s (D-OR) bill taxing Wall Street oil speculators — would require international participation to prevent the trades in question from migrating overseas, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said today. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Photo: MoniqueMonicat) As House Democrats […]

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