Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Barbara Boxer

Boxer Confirms Bike-Ped Funding, Gang of Six Loves infrastructure Spending

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 21, 2011 | No Comments

At today’s hearing, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee celebrated the bipartisan consensus it has reached on a new transportation reauthorization – but details of that consensus are still not public. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) did confirm that dedicated federal funding for bicycle and pedestrian programs remains in the bill. Addressing LA Mayor Antonio […]

No Commitment to Bike-Ped Funding in Senate Transpo Bill Outline

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 19, 2011 | No Comments

The Senate EPW Committee just posted a transportation bill outline on their website, and despite previous assurances by committee chair Barbara Boxer (D-CA), there appears to be no dedicated funding for bicycling and pedestrian programs in the bill. The outline focuses on the consolidation of programs and streamlining project delivery, much like the House bill. […]

Boxer: Two-Year Transpo Bill Will Save 600,000 Jobs

By Alice Ollstein | Jul 6, 2011 | No Comments

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, says a transportation reauthorization bill needs to be passed soon in order to avoid the loss of 600,000 jobs in the construction and transit industries. She issued a call to action this morning, pushing for a new bill before the current extension of […]

Finally: Rustlings of a Reauthorization

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 6, 2011 | No Comments

First, the House and Senate pledged they’d have a bill marked up by Memorial Day. Then it was definitely going to come in June. (One staffer even told me that they were still planning on it coming “in the spring,” so it would be before the summer solstice — June 21.) But it looks like […]

Boxer: Transpo Funding Will Rise in Senate Bill, Bike/Ped Will Be Preserved

By Tanya Snyder | May 25, 2011 | No Comments

Senator Barbara Boxer, chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, just addressed reporters about the progress of the transportation bill. Rather than holding funding at SAFETEA-LU levels, as we previously reported and as the EPW statement indicated, the committee is planning a $339.2 billion bill – current spending plus inflation, plus an expanded TIFIA […]

Senate Transportation Bill, MAP-21, Freezes Spending at Current Levels

By Tanya Snyder | May 25, 2011 | No Comments

The Environment and Public Works Committee just released an outline of some core principles of its transportation reauthorization bill. In a statement, the top Republicans and Democrats of both the full committee and the Transportation Subcommittee – Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), James Inhofe (R-OK), Max Baucus (D-MT) and David Vitter (R-LA) – said: It is […]

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