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Streetsblog Los Angeles stories from Elana Schor

• 2010

• Mar 16: House and Senate Split on Approach to Obama’s Transit Safety Plan 0
• Mar 16: Environmental Group Offers Congress a Map to Cleaner Freight 0
• Mar 15: Is 2010 the Year for Federal Bike Aid? The Answer: A Big ‘Maybe’ 0
• Mar 15: LaHood Reaches Out to Transit Industry, Lamenting ‘Lousy Economy’ 0
• Mar 12: Mr. Villaraigosa Goes to Washington to Pitch 30 in 10 0
• Mar 11: New House Jobs Bill Dominated by Aid to Cities 0
• Mar 10: U.S. Transit Trips Hit 10.2B in 2009, With Light Rail Up in Nine Cities 0
• Mar 09: Study: Clean-Car Subsidies Alone Can’t Meet White House’s Climate Goals 0
• Mar 09: Dodd Vows to Pass Livability Bill Amid Skepticism From Rural Senators 0
• Mar 05: LaHood Faces Off With GOP Senator Over High-Speed Rail, Livability 2
• Mar 04: House Passes Jobs Bill with Changes, Prompting New Senate Vote 0
• Mar 04: Senate Starts Work on New Transport Bill, With House Version as a Guide 0
• Mar 03: Bunning Throws in the Towel, Congress Restores Transport Funding 0
• Mar 02: Transportation Filibuster Update: Bunning Won’t Yield to Fellow GOPer 0
• Mar 02: Could a New Kind of Fuel Tax Help Break the Senate Climate Deadlock? 0
• Mar 01: Federal Transportation Law Expired Over the Weekend: What’s Next? 1
• Feb 26: Build America Bonds: Good for Transportation … Good for Goldman Sachs? 0
• Feb 26: Deja Vu Again: One-Man Senate Filibuster Imperils Federal Transport Law 0
• Feb 25: Report: Obama’s 2011 Budget Leaves Cities in a Fiscal Hole of $16B-Plus 0
• Feb 24: LaHood: Lower Speeds Doesn’t Save Lives 1
• Feb 24: Obama Adviser: If EPA is Blocked on Emissions, Forget About CAFE Deal 0
• Feb 23: Republican Trades Jobs Vote Bill for Promised Transportation Reauthorization Vote Later This Year 0
• Feb 22: U.S. DOT Offers Sample Distracted Driving Bill — With a Potential Loophole 0
• Feb 22: New Analysis: Major Cities Still Shortchanged by Transportation Stimulus 0
• Feb 18: A Day After Their TIGER Win, Freight Railroads Carve Out More Turf 0
• Feb 18: Rail Expert Reutter: CA and FL Deserve More HSR Funding 1
• Feb 17: Road and Transit Groups Join Boxer to Push for Senate Jobs Bill 1
• Feb 17: Freight Rail, Streetcars Are Tops in Stimulus’ TIGER Chase 5
• Feb 16: What’s Wrong With America’s Ambivalence About Crumbling Infrastructure? 5
• Feb 12: White House Economic Report Touts TIGER, High-Speed Rail, Transit 0
• Feb 11: Bipartisan Senate Jobs Bill Has Highway Trust Fund Rescue But No TIGER 0
• Feb 11: AASHTO Stimulus Report Omits Jobs Data Comparing Transit With Roads 2
• Feb 10: The Gas Tax Versus a VMT Tax: Is ‘All of the Above’ an Option? 4
• Feb 10: First Lady Launches Childhood Obesity Push With Nod to Biking & Walking 1
• Feb 09: US PIRG: How About High Speed Rail for Every Major City 15
• Feb 09: Report: White House Budget Office Helped Weaken EPA Pollution Rule 0
• Feb 08: EPA and HUD Make Big Investments in Sustainable Development 0
• Feb 08: A Vow to ‘Bring Republicans to the Table’ for a New Transport Bill 0
• Feb 05: Two Troubling Transportation Numbers for the Obama Administration 0
• Feb 04: Senate Dems to Call Up Jobs Bill Monday … With Transport Details TBA 0
• Feb 03: Miami, Sacramento, Boston Transit Projects Still Seeking Federal Approval 3
• Feb 03: White House Pitches $400M for Healthier Neighborhood Food Outlets 1
• Feb 02: How Can Transit Backers Sway Conservatives? Oberstar Joins the Debate 1
• Feb 02: U.S. DOT Names the Transit Projects Set for Federal Funding 0
• Feb 01: LaHood Talks Budget: “Very Bright” Future for Infrastructure Fund 0
• Feb 01: The White House Transportation Budget: What’s In Line for the Axe? 0
• Feb 01: White House Budget Includes $530M for Local Sustainability, $1B for HSR 0
• Jan 29: Pols, Media, Celebrate High Speed Rail Grant for California 0
• Jan 29: The Urbanist Case Against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac 0
• Jan 28: A Bike-Ped State of the Union: 9.6% of Trips, 1.2% of Federal Funding 3
• Jan 28: Feds Give $2.5 Billion for CA High Speed Rail. FL, WI and the Northwest Also Winners 2
• Jan 27: Senate Weighs $14B for Roads, $7.5B for Transit in Jobs Bill 1
• Jan 26: Democrats Learning to Love the I-Word — But Will Words Bring Action? 0
• Jan 25: In the White House’s High-Speed Rail Chase, a First Likely Winner: Florida 1
• Jan 25: In Texas, One Newspaper Laments the Highway Lanes Not Built 0
• Jan 22: Feds. Look at Miami HOT Lanes and See Good News for Transit 0
• Jan 22: Obama Previews His New Budget’s Urban Policy Moves 0
• Jan 21: More Proof That L.A. Isn’t Getting Its Fair Share of Stimulus and Other Federal Funds 3
• Jan 21: U.S. DOT Previews How New Transit Rules Could Define ‘Livability’ 1
• Jan 20: A Common Thread in the Home Buyer’s Tax Credit and ‘Cash for Clunkers’ 12
• Jan 20: Dodd and DeLauro Vow to Get Infrastructure Bank Done This Year 0
• Jan 20: The MA Senate Race: Consequences for Transport and Climate Policy 0
• Jan 19: Obama Quietly Gets Federal Agencies Involved in Transport Planning 1
• Jan 19: CBO Echoes Obama’s Candor on the Pitfalls of ‘Shovel-Readiness’ 0
• Jan 15: EPA Air Chief: We Need to Do More to Reduce VMT 2
• Jan 15: Enviro Group Sees State DOTs’ Transport Predictions — and Raises Them 0
• Jan 14: The Big Trouble with “Miles Per Gallon” 11
• Jan 14: LaHood Wants More TIGER Aid in the Congressional Jobs Bill 0
• Jan 13: Big Transit News: Bush-Era Rule Tossed, Enviro Benefits on the Table 5
• Jan 13: Freight Rail Traffic Hit 20-Year Lows in 2009 1
• Jan 12: Pelosi: Gas Tax Hike Doesn’t Have Majority Support in Congress 1
• Jan 12: Should a Climate Bill Even Try to Fight Sprawl? 1
• Jan 11: Congress, Associated Press, Argue Whether Stimulus Actually Stimulated Anything 0
• Jan 11: Obama Administration Working on Its Own Six-Year Transportation Bill 1
• Jan 08: Does Transit-Oriented Development Work Even Without Transit? 5
• Jan 07: The U.S. Transportation Financing Crisis: A Snapshot From the States 0
• Jan 07: Report: The American Car Fleet Is Shrinking 4
• Jan 06: Biden’s Homage to AMTRAK 0
• Jan 05: Environmental Reviews: Helpful (and Hurtful) to Many Ideologies 0
• Jan 05: Transit Fare Inflation Hitting Health Insurance-Like Levels? 0
• Jan 04: APTA: Economic Slump Hitting Transit Ridership…But Not in L.A. 5

• 2009

• Dec 21: CA One of Four Finalists for High Speed Rail? 3
• Dec 18: Two Dems Propose to End Bush-Era Rule on Transit ‘Cost-Effectiveness’ 2
• Dec 17: Transit Jobs Nearly Twice as Cheap to Create as Roads — By Congress’ Math 0
• Dec 17: Senate Climate Bill Invests Big in Transit, Reaps Big Deficit Reduction 0
• Dec 16: House Jobs Bill Could Make General Electric’s Amtrak Wish Come True 1
• Dec 16: Ray LaHood Visits ‘The Daily Show’ to Talk Transportation 1
• Dec 15: House Jobs Bill Mimics the Stimulus: $27.5B for Roads, $8.4B for Transit 0
• Dec 15: The Footnote to All Those Complaints About Tax Cuts as Stimulus 0
• Dec 14: Transport Bill Earmark to Help Road Project in Palin’s Hometown 0
• Dec 10: House and Senate Agree on $2.5B for High-Speed Rail — And More 6
• Dec 09: Livable Streets All-Stars, Blumenauer and Sadik-Khan, Launch Cities for Cycling 0
• Dec 08: White House Backs $50B For ‘Merit-Based Infrastructure Investment’ 1
• Dec 08: NY and CA: How Did They Spend Transportation Stimulus Money? 0
• Dec 07: EPA Makes it Official: Emissions Threaten Public Health 1
• Dec 07: Rendell: National Infrastructure Bank Could Move as Part of New Jobs Bill 0
• Dec 04: Partisan Politics and Rail: Tea Party Movement Targets Florida Plan 0
• Dec 03: Rendell & Lawmakers Aligning on 2-Year, Treasury-Funded Transport Bill 1
• Dec 03: Streetsblog Capitol Hill Q&A: Blumenauer Talks Economic Recovery 0
• Dec 02: In New Orleans, LaHood $280 Million in Bus and Streetcar Grants 0
• Dec 01: The Missed Opportunity For an Urban Stimulus: Mayors ‘Were Ignored’ 0
• Nov 30: LaHood to Congress: It’s Time to Talk About a Gas Tax Increase 1
• Nov 25: Consumer Group: White House Left Fuel-Efficiency Savings on the Table 0
• Nov 24: New Report: Road Funding From Non-Road Users Doubled in 25 Years 2
• Nov 24: DeFazio, Perlmutter Drafting New Version of Wall Street Transport Tax 1
• Nov 24: Higher Gas Prices Alone Won’t Make Cleaner Cars a Reality 4
• Nov 23: Senate Health Bill Holds Onto Grants For Healthier Transportation 0
• Nov 20: To Thrive, Suburbs Might Become More Urban 0
• Nov 19: A Warning From America’s Cities: The Recession Has Only Just Begun to Hit 0
• Nov 19: ‘This Needs Attention’: Senators Seek Shot in the Arm on Transportation 0
• Nov 18: Bipartisan Support Builds for Six-Month Extension of Current Transpo Law 0
• Nov 17: Introducing the Samuelson Gas Tax Increase: A Penny Every Month 2
• Nov 17: Dems, AFL-CIO Step Up Push for Infrastructure Spending as Job Creator 0
• Nov 16: Feds Propose to Expand Opportunities for Biking and Walking to Transit 1
• Nov 12: Which is the Fastest-Rising U.S. Emissions Source: Transport or Electricity? 6
• Nov 12: Report: After MN Collapse, Bridge Repair Got Just 11% of D.C. Earmarks 0
• Nov 11: Chrysler: Taking Taxpayer Money and Running Away From Cleaner Cars 2
• Nov 10: Grassley: ‘Two or Three Other’ Republicans Open to Climate Change Deal 0
• Nov 10: The Wall Street Transportation Tax: Predictably Unpopular On Wall Street 1
• Nov 09: The National Perspective: New Report Maps the Gap Between Pedestrian Risks and Federal Safety Aid 3
• Nov 06: ‘The Concrete is Cracking’: Front-Loaded New Transport Bill Gains Steam 0
• Nov 05: Boxer Okays Senate Climate Bill, Without Amendments or GOP 0
• Nov 04: Congress Set to Double the Size of Sprawl-Centric Home Buyer’s Tax Credit 0
• Nov 03: Buffett’s Bet on Burlington: What Does it Mean for Transport and Energy? 2
• Nov 02: To Limit Distracted Driving, Congress Leans Toward a Carrot-Stick Combo 2
• Oct 28: Transportation Policy Becomes the Proverbial Tree Falling in the Forest 0
• Oct 28: At Senate Climate Hearings, Lots of Transport Talk and All Eyes on Baucus 0
• Oct 27: Transport Policy Update: Senate to Pass 6-Month Extension This Week 0
• Oct 26: How Bus Transit Can Help the Auto Industry 3
• Oct 26: GOP Senators Protest Evaluating the Climate Impacts of Transport Projects 0
• Oct 26: Senate Climate Bill Triples the House’s Investments in Clean Transportation 1
• Oct 23: Obama: Climate Pessimism More Dangerous Than Climate Deniers 3
• Oct 22: Takeaway From This Week’s EPA Hearing: Fuel Efficiency is a Money-Maker 0
• Oct 21: GOPers Re-Name the Climate Bill Again: Now It’s a ‘Gas Tax’! 2
• Oct 21: American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy: California Doing the Most 0
• Oct 20: Think Tank Responds to Report on Hidden Costs of Fossil Fuels: Yawn 1
• Oct 20: New Study Shows $56 Billion in Hidden Health Damage from Autos 1
• Oct 16: Transport Debate Still Stalled As Oberstar Decries ‘Lack of Political Will’ 0
• Oct 15: The Oversight Gap in Team Obama’s High-Speed Rail Plan 1
• Oct 13: Obama Ally Breaks With White House on Timing of New Transport Bill 0
• Oct 09: Senate Climate Bill Delayed Yet Again As Obama Takes Nobel 0
• Oct 09: Streetsblog Q&A: Bush DOT Chief Backs Transport Tech Funding 0
• Oct 07: Obama’s Engaged With Transit More in 9 Months than Bush Did in 8 Years 3
• Oct 06: Is a Bigger Transportation Bill — This Year — Back on the Table? 0
• Oct 05: LaHood’s Twelve-Word Definition of ‘Livability’ 1
• Oct 05: Congress’ Transport Impasse Hits States — and Not Just Their Road Funds 2
• Oct 02: SF’s Newsom: Let’s Not Extend Parking Meter Hours in a Recession 0
• Oct 01: Boxer’s Climate Bill Released With Much Fanfare, Little Focus on Transport 2
• Sep 29: New Report: Feds Subsidizing Parking Six Times as Much as Transit 2
• Sep 23: House Voting Today on Transport Law Extension — What’s Next? 0
• Sep 23: New Report: 10% Transit Growth Would Help Meet House Climate Target 0
• Sep 21: Boxer Reminds Metrolink: Train Crew Members Shouldn’t Ride Solo 3
• Sep 18: Pro-Tea Party Republican’s Angry Letter to D.C. Metro: Read it in Full 7
• Sep 17: Oberstar to Back 3-Month Delay in Transport Bill As Soon As Next Week 0
• Sep 17: Warner Scores a (Small) Win for White House’s Transportation Agenda 0
• Sep 16: Senate R’s Attempts to Strip Bike/Ped Requirment Dies on Senate Floor 0
• Sep 16: New Investigation Finds 2,100 Transport Lobbyists Working the System 0
• Sep 15: The New White House Fuel Efficiency Rule: Count the Loopholes 0
• Sep 15: Jane Jacobs’ Is Planetizen’s Top Urban Planner, Shoup Fifteenth 3
• Sep 14: McCain’s List of Wasteful Transit Includes Wilshire Bus-Only Lanes and Gold Line Extension 15
• Sep 14: Oberstar Stands Firm on Transportation Bill, Gets Industry Backup 1
• Sep 11: Department of Energy Gets Basic Math Wrong in its Rail Analysis 20
• Sep 10: Consensus on National Transport Goals Still Eludes Industry Pros 5
• Sep 09: How Much Would Most People Pay For a Shorter Commute? 3
• Sep 09: Was the Auto Industry Bailout Legal? It’s Debatable, Oversight Panel Says 1
• Sep 08: Compromise or Concession: It’s Not Just for Healthcare 0
• Sep 04: LaHood on Transport: ‘We Don’t Want to Pit One Mode … Against Another’ 0
• Sep 03: Feds Still Forcing Transit Agencies to Bow to Private Charter Buses 3
• Sep 01: ‘Clunkers’ Consequences: GM Sales Down, Ford Gas-Guzzlers Up 0
• Aug 31: Senator Dukakis? What Kennedy’s Loss Could Mean for Transport Policy 1
• Aug 21: D.C. City Government Considers “Cash for Close-in Urban Living” 2
• Aug 20: As “Cash for Clunkers” Sputters, a Privately Funded Spinoff Picks Up 0
• Aug 19: Crunching June Stimulus Numbers: Roads Create Pricier Jobs Than Transit 0
• Aug 19: Know Your Transportation Lobbyists: Transit Beats Roads — Sort Of 1
• Aug 18: Transit Cuts Report Underscores Cities’ Congressional Influence Gap 0
• Aug 17: Tracking Transport Subsidies: As Tough as Following the Stimulus Money 1
• Aug 17: Oil Industry Tears Page from Health Care Playbook to Battle Climate Bill 1
• Aug 14: Report: Boxer ‘Sympathetic to’ Backers of More Climate Money for Transit 0
• Aug 14: Could Electric-Car Tax Credits Become the Next “Cash for Clunkers”? 3
• Aug 13: Distracted Driving Laws Lack Teeth in Some States, Not CA 0
• Aug 13: Obama Administration Touts Nation’s First All-Electronic Toll Road in N.C. 1
• Aug 12: Electric Cars and the Future of the Gas Tax 6
• Aug 12: Transport Construction Industry Mobilizes for Oberstar’s Bill 0
• Aug 11: Senate’s New DOT Spending Bill Eases One Transit Funding Barrier 1
• Aug 11: New ‘Clunkers’ Analysis: Trucks, SUVs More Popular Than Suggested 0
• Aug 10: 30 Congressmen Propose Oil Futures Tax to Pay for Transportation 3
• Aug 10: The Peculiar Federalism of Transit Safety: No National Standards Exist 5
• Aug 07: Electrified Transportation’s Big Week in Washington 1
• Aug 06: Audit Finds U.S. DOT’s Transit Record-Keeping ‘Unreliable,’ ‘Inaccurate’ 1
• Aug 05: Portland’s Transport Research Guru Headed to Obama Administration 1
• Aug 04: Following ‘Cash for Clunkers’ with ‘Riches for Rail’ 3
• Aug 04: Separating Myth from Fact on “Cash for Clunkers” 3
• Aug 03: How — and When — Can D.C. Help Local Transport Reform Happen? 3
• Jul 31: Federal Government Racing to Give $2 Billion More for Cash for Clunkers 17
• Jul 31: ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Out of Cash — But Not Quite Finished 8
• Jul 30: McCain & Coburn: Let’s Make Roads Safer — by Slashing Safety Money 0
• Jul 29: Senate Panel Backs $1.2B for High Speed Rail, $1.4B Extra For Highways 3
• Jul 29: Your Burger or Your Car! (And More Fun with False Dichotomies) 7
• Jul 28: Oberstar to White House: On Emissions, Back Up Your Words With Action 0
• Jul 27: The Capitol’s 10 Transportation Players to Know 0
• Jul 27: From the Dept. of Mixed Messages: LaHood Touts ‘Cash for Clunkers’ 16
• Jul 23: Lawmakers Pitch Transport Funding Ideas, From VMT to Freight Taxes 0
• Jul 22: Dems. in Senate Pushing Transit Into Climate Change 0
• Jul 21: Senate Agrees on $26.8 Billion Highway Trust Fund Rescue 0
• Jul 15: White House Staying Quiet For Now on Transit’s Role in Climate Bill 1
• Jul 15: Lawmakers Cross Party Lines on Transpo Funding as Debate Rages 1
• Jul 13: Obama Talks Urban Policy as LaHood Seeks More Urban Transpo Money 0
• Jul 13: Transit Outsourcing Booms — But Are There Safety Trade-offs? 7
• Jul 10: Republicans Deem Transpo Stimulus — 6% of Total Spending — a ‘Failure’ 1
• Jul 10: Taking GOP Graphics a Bit Too Seriously 1
• Jul 09: Did Pelosi Just Side with Oberstar on Transportation Bill? 0
• Jul 09: “Environmental Champion” Boxer Delays Climate Bill Until Fall 2
• Jul 08: Urban Traffic Report Sparks Clever Headlines, But Little Transit Talk 0
• Jul 08: Lawmakers Aim to Bring ‘Sustainable Communities’ From Talk to Action 1
• Jul 07: Senate Starts Climate Push With Nods to Jobs, Energy, and Transportation 0
• Jul 06: Adding More Transportation to the Climate Change Mix 8
• Jul 06: New Report on Old Roads Uses Old Assumptions 0
• Jul 01: Cities See Population Gains — But What About Political Power? 0
• Jun 30: EPA Okays Stronger Auto Emissions Standards Now in CA, 13 Other States 2
• Jun 30: Lawmakers Investigating the Resignation of Amtrak’s In-House Watchdog 0
• Jun 29: House Climate Bill on Green Transpo: The Details 0
• Jun 26: The Wall Street Tax Shelter That Crashed Your Local Transit Agency 8
• Jun 25: Ohio Republican Senator: Voinovich: Business Buy-in Can Get Transportation Bill Done 3
• Jun 25: Boxer: Forget Transportation Bill, Work with Me on Something Else 4
• Jun 24: The High-Speed Rail Numbers Game: Is $13 Billion and 110 MPH Enough? 2
• Jun 24: House Dems Agree: Climate Bill Can Help Pay for Greener Transportation 1
• Jun 23: Senators Seek Rail Safety Funding in Aftermath of Metro Crash 0
• Jun 22: Oberstar’s Transportation Bill: The Early Word 1
• Jun 19: House GOPers Propose Filling Trust Fund With Stimulus Money 0
• Jun 18: Bi-Partisan Transpo. Team in House Ready to Take on Obama, LaHood 1
• Jun 18: Oberstar’s New Transportation Bill: Get The Highlights 0
• Jun 18: Boxer Thrilled Obama Wants Delay on Federal Transportation Bill 3
• Jun 17: WHO Report Highlights Global Health Risk of Traffic 1
• Jun 16: GOP’s New Attack on Health Care Reform Bill: It Promotes Walking! 2
• Jun 16: Report: Nation’s Cities Getting Stiffed on Stimulus 0
• Jun 15: AARP Sends Its Transportation Priorities to Congress 0
• Jun 12: Congress Agrees to Keep Transit Operating Aid in War Bill 0
• Jun 11: Carnahan Steps Up Push For Federal Help With Transit Operating 0
• Jun 10: When Will Oberstar’s Transportation Bill Drop? Place Your Bets Now 0
• Jun 04: LaHood Vows to Avert Federal Transpo Bankruptcy and Pay For It 0
• Jun 04: Transit Planners to Congress: Please Figure Out How to Fund Us 1
• Jun 03: Cycling in National Cemetery: Yea or Nay? 1
• Jun 02: Bush Transpo Secretary’s Biggest Disappointment: Bush 1
• Jun 01: Solve the Congestion Crisis And Win $50,000 6
• Jun 01: Sotomayor’s Eminent Domain Stance: What Does It Mean for Cities? 1
• May 29: Polly Trottenberg Tapped For Senior U.S. DOT Spot 1
• May 29: Obama Keeps Roads Out of National Forests — For a Time 1
• May 28: Flashback: Obama Once Led Push for ‘Complete Streets’ 0
• May 27: Why Buy More Trains If You Can’t Afford to Run Them? 0
• May 20: Portland Congressman to George Will: Let’s Debate 3
• May 20: Watson One of Four Lawmakers Who Show Up To Pitch Local Projects 0
• May 19: Illinois Congressman Pushes For Pro-Bike Transportation Bill 0
• May 19: The Long, Ugly Road to a Federal Transportation Plan 2
• May 19: Congress Reluctant to Shine Light on Transportation Earmarks 0
• May 18: Obama’s Energy Secretary Reclaims His Bike, For A Day 0
• May 18: Will: Government Shouldn’t Interfere — Except To Benefit Big Highways 3
• May 18: Waxman’s Climate Bill Includes ‘Complete Streets’ But Not CLEAN TEA 0
• May 15: Congress Takes a First Step Towards Reshaping Transportation Policy 0
• May 14: Senators Hear From Obama’s Transit Chief-in-Waiting 0
• May 13: Less Than One Percent of Transpo Stimulus Money Paid Out So Far 0
• May 13: A Federal Transportation Bill is Coming… But When? 0