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Tanya Snyder

Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radio’s Washington bureau and for public radio stations around the country. She lives car-free in a transit-oriented and bike-friendly neighborhood of Washington, DC.
tanya@streetsblog.org

Posts by Tanya

• 2013

• May 23: Capital Bikeshare Members Reduced Their Driving 4.4 Million Miles Per Year 0
• May 22: Suburbanization of Poverty Isolates a Growing Number of Americans 0
• May 21: Obama’s Budget Would Save the Transpo Trust Fund. If Only It Were Real. 0
• May 20: With Less Driving, Can We Tone Down the Hysteria About Congestion? 0
• May 16: Is This Our Future? Solo Driving Drops in DC as Transit and Biking Soar. 0
• May 16: Refereeing the Raging Debate Over the “Specialness” of Cyclists 0
• May 15: Seven Ways Technology Is Rendering the Automobile Obsolete 0
• May 15: Millennials Will Drive More As They Age, But Still Less Than Their Parents 0
• May 14: U.S. PIRG: The Driving Boom Is Over But the Road-Building Binge Continues 0
• May 13: How Green Is Grocery Delivery in Cities? 0
• May 13: Commuter Idyll Winner Jake Williams Tells His Dramatic Story of Salvation 0
• May 10: If You Pay Sales Tax at Amazon.com, Your Transit System Could Improve 0
• May 09: Dreamy Routines: Some of Our Readers’ Best “Commuter Idylls” 0
• May 08: There Goes the Neighborhood: Why Homeownership Drags Down Employment 0
• May 07: The Inequitable Toll of Pedestrian Deaths 0
• May 07: NHTSA: Traffic Deaths Shot Up 5.3 Percent to 34,080 in 2012 0
• May 06: Surviving a War Abroad Only to Die Back Home Behind the Wheel 0
• May 03: Sustainability Busts Out of Its Cubicle, Permeates DOT, HUD, and EPA 0
• May 02: Tell Us About Your “Commuter Idyll” 0
• May 02: A Dear Abby for Transportation Secretaries: Advice From Foxx’s Predecessors 0
• May 01: A Golden Opportunity for Congress to Avoid the Transportation “Fiscal Cliff” 0
• Apr 30: Does President Obama Have the Power to Influence Transportation Policy? 0
• Apr 29: Congress Indulges in Crazy Talk About De-Funding Transit and Taxing Bikes 0
• Apr 25: Pretty Please: U.S. DOT Asks Carmakers to Limit Onboard Distractions 0
• Apr 24: No Surprise Here: Drivers Don’t Want to Pay Higher Gas Taxes 0
• Apr 23: Come and Get It: LaHood Announces Fifth Round of TIGER Grants 0
• Apr 17: Sparks Fly as Lawmaker Grills LaHood on Columbia River Crossing Transit 0
• Apr 15: LaHood: Zero Tolerance for Drivers Who Disrespect Cyclists 0
• Apr 15: Counting Bikes and Cars Without a Clipboard 0
• Apr 11: Congress, Administration Trade Gimmicky Ideas For Keeping Amtrak Afloat 0
• Apr 10: Obama’s 2014 Transpo Budget Calls for Higher Spending, HSR 0
• Apr 09: How to Write a Complete Streets Policy 0
• Apr 05: Study: Too Many Drivers Fail to Look for Pedestrians When Turning Left 0
• Apr 02: What Should the Surgeon General Say to Get More People Walking? 0
• Mar 29: How Much Driving Is Avoided When Someone Rides a Bike? 0
• Mar 27: Another Slanted High-Speed Rail Story From Anderson Cooper 0
• Mar 26: Will New Oil Supplies Slow the Transition to Green Transportation? 0
• Mar 22: Will Big Highway Projects Have to Consider Climate Change? 0
• Mar 18: Obama’s Clean Energy Policy Elevates Efficient Cars Over Efficient Modes 0
• Mar 14: Lawmakers Fret About Impact of Budget Cuts on Transit 0
• Mar 13: Eleven Things to Look for in the Passenger Rail Reauthorization 0
• Mar 11: Transit Trips Rose Faster Than Driving in 2012, Despite Impact of Sandy 0
• Mar 08: In Violation of MAP-21 Promises, House Votes to Cut Transportation Spending 0
• Mar 08: Congress Comes to the Bike Summit (and the Bike Summit Goes to Congress) 0
• Mar 06: AAA Releases Bike Safety PSA at Bike Summit 0
• Mar 06: LaHood Announces Safety Summits to Help Shape New Bikeway Standards 0
• Mar 04: How to Diversify Bicycle Culture in Three Easy Steps 0
• Feb 28: Sequester Would Cut New Starts By $100M, Could Trigger FTA Furloughs 0
• Feb 25: Sequestration Week: Will Congress Find a Solution By Friday? Does It Matter? 0
• Feb 25: Today’s Sign That America Is Falling Behind on Transport Policy 0
• Feb 18: Ray LaHood: “It’s Not Just About Emissions” 0
• Feb 15: Sen. Frank Lautenberg, Rail Promoter, Announces Retirement 0
• Feb 14: Ray LaHood: “Sitting on the Sidelines Doesn’t Accomplish Anything” 0
• Feb 14: The Ray LaHood Exit Interview 0
• Feb 13: Mica Won’t Let His Grudge Against Amtrak Die, Revives Privatization Scheme 0
• Feb 12: McClatchy Muckrakers Expose Seedy Underbelly of the Highway Bonanza 0
• Feb 11: Cycling Advocates to President: We’d Like Another Ray LaHood, Please 0
• Feb 07: Gary Toth: TTI Congestion Scores Prove Road Expansion Isn’t the Answer 0
• Feb 06: So God Created Transit: A Fitting Response to Dodge Ram’s Super Bowl Ad 0
• Feb 04: Secretary Villaraigosa? Not So Fast. 0
• Jan 31: Keeping CNN Honest: 10 Ways Anderson Cooper Got the Rail Story Wrong 0
• Jan 30: What Is Obama Looking For in a New Transportation Secretary? 0
• Jan 29: It’s Official: LaHood Is Out 0
• Jan 25: How Mayor Mick Cornett Fought Oklahoma City’s Brain Drain and Weight Gain 0
• Jan 23: Today’s Transit Dreams May Come True — 78 Years From Now 0
• Jan 22: Federal Transit Administration Grapples With Likely Funding Cuts 0
• Jan 18: Outgoing AASHTO Director: Assess Gas Tax By the Dollar, Not By the Gallon 0
• Jan 16: Pro-Bike Republican Tom Petri to Chair Key House Transpo Panel 0
• Jan 15: Today in Foreign Policy: American Interests Demand Walkable Communities 0
• Jan 15: GAO: Mileage Fee Could Be More “Equitable and Efficient” Than Gas Tax 0
• Jan 10: What Does It Mean That LaHood Isn’t on the Second-Term List? Nothing. 0
• Jan 10: How Rethinking the Golf Course Could Help Seniors Age in Place 0
• Jan 08: Do T&I Committee Members Get the Transpo Needs of American Cities? 0
• Jan 07: Study: Shorter Blocks May Be the Key to Cutting Traffic in Small Cities 0
• Jan 04: Fiscal Cliff Deal Leaves Big Questions on Transportation 0

• 2012

• Dec 20: What Do Anti-Density NIMBYs and Road-Wideners Have in Common? 0
• Dec 20: Do Seniors Want the Livability Improvements AARP Wants For Them? 0
• Dec 18: Blumenauer: Let’s Stop Hiding in Fear of a Mileage Fee 0
• Dec 18: New Black Box Rule Isn’t Enough to Hold Drivers Accountable For Ped Crashes 0
• Dec 17: Ford Tries to Sell More Cars By Looking to a Future With Fewer Cars 0
• Dec 11: Seven Jiu-Jitsu Moves for Advocates to Use MAP-21 to Their Own Advantage 0
• Dec 10: Getting Hosed on a Hybrid 0
• Dec 07: LaHood: “We’re Not Giving Up on High-Speed Rail” in California 0
• Dec 06: Surgeon General Announces Call to Action on Walking 0
• Dec 04: Eight Burning Questions About Post-Election Transpo Policy and Politics 0
• Nov 30: What Would Meaningful Amtrak Reform Look Like? 0
• Nov 29: How States Are Adapting to MAP-21’s Changes to Bike/Ped Funding 0
• Nov 28: It’s Official: Bill Shuster Named Transportation Committee Chair 0
• Nov 28: Mica Drops Chairmanship Bid, Endorses Shuster 0
• Nov 27: Rob Ford’s Greatest Hits 0
• Nov 21: GAO: States “Flexing” Fewer Federal Dollars to Transit 0
• Nov 20: Why Traffic Deaths Are More Common in Red States Than in Blue States 0
• Nov 19: Streetsblog Readers: Janette Sadik-Khan Beats Villaraigosa, Gabe Klein For DOT Secretary 0
• Nov 19: School District Threatens Rockville Mom for Putting Her Child on City Bus 0
• Nov 16: How MAP-21 Pushed Transit to the Edge of Its Own Fiscal Cliff 0
• Nov 15: What Kind of Leadership Would Bill Shuster Bring to the Transpo Committee? 0
• Nov 13: Grover Norquist Buckles to Pressure From Koch-Backed Group on Carbon Tax 0
• Nov 13: Yes, We Have No Carbon Tax 0
• Nov 09: Nationwide, Transit Taxes Did Pretty Well at the Ballot Box 0
• Nov 08: UPDATE: Boehner’s Cryptic Message on Taxes 0
• Nov 07: Election Reveals Who Will Shape the Next Transportation Bill 0
• Nov 05: Which Mitt Would Shape U.S. Transpo Policy: The Governor or the Candidate? 0
• Nov 05: What Has President Obama Done to Improve American Transportation Policy? 0
• Oct 31: Who Should Foot the Bill for Sandy’s Damage to Tracks and Train Tunnels? 0
• Oct 30: Infographic: The Many Connections Between Transportation and Health 0
• Oct 15: DIY Urbanism: No Permits, No Red Tape, No Going Back 0
• Oct 11: MassDOT Secretary: “We Will Build No More Superhighways” 0
• Oct 10: This Could Be the Biggest Year Ever for Transit at the Ballot Box 0
• Oct 08: NRDC Gives Gas Consumption Maps a Helpful Revision 0
• Oct 02: As MAP-21 Takes Effect, Road Builders Vie for TIFIA Funds 0
• Oct 01: Should Doctors Play a Role in Determining Who’s Fit to Drive? 0
• Oct 01: Which Counties Have the Biggest Oil Addiction Problem? We Still Don’t Know. 0
• Sep 27: The Economist: Don’t Expect Driving Rates to Rise Again 0
• Sep 25: Colorado Authorities Cite Driver for Cyclist Harassment 0
• Sep 24: Reminder: Amtrak Subsidies Pale in Comparison to Highway Subsidies 0
• Sep 20: “We’d Rather Work on Our Fixies”: Cars Fade Into the Background 0
• Sep 19: USA Today: Homebuilders Pass On Garages, Build Front Porches 0
• Sep 19: Will MAP-21 Require Thousands More Dangerous Stroads? 0
• Sep 18: Here’s Your Chance to Influence MAP-21’s Implementation 0
• Sep 13: NRDC Poll: Americans Support New Transit Twice as Much as New Roads 0
• Sep 12: How Highway Spending Could Become as Transparent as Bike/Ped Spending 0
• Sep 05: Democratic Platform’s Scarce Words on Transportation Fail to Inspire 0
• Sep 05: September Brings “Back to School” Jump in Traffic Congestion 0
• Aug 30: They Totally Went There: GOP Outlines Extremist Transpo Views in Platform 0
• Aug 27: Stroller-Share: Can I Get an Amen? 0
• Aug 24: Romney Energy Plan: More Drilling, More Oil Dependence 0
• Aug 22: Finally, the Presidential Race Turns to Transportation 0
• Aug 16: There’s a Lot Riding on U.S. DOT’s Definition of “Congestion” 0
• Aug 13: International Funders Shift Investments Toward Sustainable Transportation 0
• Aug 09: The Strain of Job Sprawl on Two-Income Households 0
• Aug 07: In New NHTSA Report, Scarce Information on Causes of Pedestrian Deaths 0
• Aug 02: Governors Get on Board With Smart Growth 0
• Aug 01: How Much Bang Are Cities Getting From Federal BRT Bucks? 0
• Jul 26: MAP-21 Puts the Squeeze on Bridge Repair and Bikes 0
• Jul 24: No Explanations as Traffic Deaths Jump 13.5 Percent 0
• Jul 23: Smart Growth America: States May Pave Over Their Own Good Intentions 0
• Jul 19: Tea Party Deficit Hawks Don’t Mind Charging the Taxpayer For Personal Cars 0
• Jul 13: Cliff’s Notes on the Transit Changes in MAP-21 0
• Jul 13: The Awful Truth About the Transpo Bill’s Bike/Ped Loophole 0
• Jul 11: Brookings: Inadequate Transit and Sprawl Cut Off Workers From Jobs 0
• Jul 10: We’re Still Living in the SAFETEA-LU Era For Three More Months 0
• Jul 10: States Already Licking Their Chops Over Newly “Flexible” Bike/Ped Funds 0
• Jul 03: Under New Bill, America’s Transpo Loan Program Ignores National Goals 0
• Jun 28: Transpo Bill Cuts Bike/Ped Funding, Lets States Spend It on Left-Turn Lanes 0
• Jun 28: Complete Streets Provision Eliminated From Final Transpo Bill 0
• Jun 27: Boxer Confirms That Some Bike/Ped Protections Remain in Final Bill 0
• Jun 27: It’s a Deal: Conference Committee Reaches Tentative Agreement 0
• Jun 25: Pressure Mounts to Hold Sen. Boxer to Her Word on Safe Streets 0
• Jun 22: Advocates Plea to Boxer: Save Funds for Safe Streets, Don’t Let House Gut NEPA 4
• Jun 22: Boehner Masks GOP Attack on Safe Streets By Opposing Flowers 0
• Jun 21: Boxer and Mica Release Vague Reassurance of Progress 0
• Jun 20: 386 to 34: House Instructs Conference to Get It Done By Friday 0
• Jun 20: House to Vote on Firming Up the Conference Deadline 0
• Jun 19: AASHTO Adds Designs to Bikeway Guide, But Not Protected Bike Lanes 0
• Jun 15: Boxer Changes Her Tone, Adopts a Fighting Stance 0
• Jun 12: Where Is John Mica as Congress Takes Transpo Programs to the Brink? 0
• Jun 11: House Attack on Safe Streets Makes Transpo Bill Ever More Elusive 0
• Jun 08: Conference Devolves Into Talk of Extensions 0
• Jun 07: House GOP Wastes Time With Bogus Gas Tax Debate 0
• Jun 06: Pelosi Challenges Boehner to Cancel Recess, Pound Out a Transpo Bill 0
• Jun 06: Stakeholders Beg Conferees to Stop Acting Like Children 0
• Jun 05: Boxer and Inhofe Make Their Offer to the House, Try to Avoid 10th Extension 0
• Jun 04: FRA Chief: America Is Driving Less and Congress Needs to Catch Up 0
• May 25: N.J. Senator Menendez Launches Big Oil Subsidy Tracker 0
• May 24: Washington Post: Have We Lost Our Passion for the Automobile? 0
• May 23: Tea Party Republicans Take Aim at Bike-Ped Funding in Conference 0
• May 22: U.S. DOT Spells Out Priorities For Conference Bill 0
• May 17: From a Reader: Seven More Questions For the Transportation Conference 0
• May 15: RAND: Car-Sharing Could Cut Carbon Emissions From Cars By 1.7 Percent 0
• May 14: Walk Score Calculates City Bikeability, and Minneapolis Comes Out on Top 0
• May 10: Are Americans Driving Less Because They’re Working Less? 0
• May 08: Seven Questions About the Transportation Bill Conference 0
• May 07: The Reason Foundation’s Comically Flawed Research on LA Rail 0
• May 03: The Cast of The West Wing Walks the “Walk and Talk” Walk 0
• May 01: FHWA: Small Investments in Bike/Ped Infrastructure Can Pay Off in a Big Way 0
• Apr 30: FRA Guidance on Pedestrian Safety Still Misses the Real Problem 0
• Apr 30: Have a Question for Secretary LaHood? Ask It Here. 0
• Apr 24: Five Ex-Secretaries Map Out a Communications Strategy For Transportation 0
• Apr 23: This Week: Conference Gladiators Could Be Named, Senate Budget Stalls 0
• Apr 13: House Tries to Horse-Trade Senate Bill For Keystone Pipeline 0
• Apr 11: Census Breaks the News We Already Knew: The Exurbs Are History 0
• Mar 21: Why Are Three Out of Four Cyclists on the Street Men? 0
• Mar 21: Raise Fees for Parking, Not Riding 0
• Mar 16: House Won’t Take Up Senate Transpo Bill as March 31 Deadline Looms 0
• Mar 13: Obama Counters Gas Price Demagoguery With Commitment to Fracking 0
• Mar 13: Don’t Count Out HR 7 Yet: House GOP Could Revive Their Bill This Week 0
• Mar 08: As Yet Another House Proposal Dies In Utero, Boehner Looks to Senate Bill 0
• Feb 28: Don’t Call It a Merger: America’s Big Three Bike/Ped Advocates Join Forces 0
• Jan 10: Nigeria Strikes for Cheap Fuel 0
• Jan 09: To GOP’s Dismay, DOT Funds Disaster Relief Without Gutting Other Programs 0
• Jan 09: Was Eric Cantor Forced to Ride This Bike? 0
• Jan 05: Ron Paul: Stop Subsidizing Highways, Let “Transits” Flourish 0
• Jan 05: In Leadup to Iowa Victory, Romney Pokes Passenger Rail 0

• 2011

• Dec 20: Lawmakers Push to Fund Transit Service During Economic Emergencies 0
• Dec 15: Nearly Half of TIGER Award Money Goes to Roads, 29 Percent For Transit 0
• Dec 15: Senate Commerce Committee Sets the Standard For Transpo Performance 0
• Dec 14: TIGER III News Begins to Leak — Chicago Bike-Share Among the Winners 0
• Dec 13: Senate Banking Committee to Vote on Transit Section of Transpo Bill Friday 0
• Dec 12: Transit’s Not Bleeding the Taxpayer Dry — Roads Are 0
• Dec 09: Ray LaHood Gives Go-Ahead to Portland’s Sprawl-Inducing Mega-Bridge 0
• Dec 08: OMB: Senate Seeking Too Much Highway Money to Fund Transportation Bill 0
• Dec 07: Was Ridesharing Ignored in the Senate Transportation Bill? 0
• Dec 06: LaHood Defends High-Speed Rail Program At House Hearing 0
• Dec 01: House GOP Slows Down Its Rush to Introduce Oil-and-Infrastructure Bill 0
• Nov 30: Mapped: How Federal Funding Fails to Match Demand for Transit in the U.S. 0
• Nov 29: Is Congress Trying to Put the Kibosh on TIGER Funding For Bike/Ped? 0
• Nov 28: Mapping the Consequences of Our Automobile Addiction 0
• Nov 17: No Details Yet on House Transportation and Oil Drilling Bill 0
• Nov 16: 2012 Transpo Budget: Sustainable Communities and HSR Out, TIGER In 0
• Nov 15: Deputy Secretary Roy Kienitz Calls It Quits At USDOT 0
• Nov 14: Senate Bill May Weaken Smaller Metros, Empower State DOTs 0
• Nov 14: What’s Wrong With Telling Cyclists to Ride on the Bike Path? 0
• Nov 10: More Election Results: Transit Wins Big 0
• Nov 10: Nine Reasons For Bike/Ped Advocates to Take Heart: The Senate Edition 0
• Nov 09: Two-Year Transpo Bill Moves on to Full Senate Without Bike/Ped Protections 0
• Nov 04: Two Infrastructure Jobs Bills Die in Senate 0
• Nov 03: How Will the House Answer the Senate’s Transportation Funding Bill? 0
• Nov 01: Feds Put Off Issuing New Trucking Safety Rules 0
• Nov 01: Bike/Ped Funding Intact as Senate Rejects Rand Paul’s Amendment 0
• Oct 31: Why Create an Infrastructure Bank When We Could Just Expand TIFIA? 0
• Oct 26: The Federal Government’s Smart Growth-Inspired Landlord 0
• Oct 21: Senate Panel to Vote on Transportation Bill Next Month 0
• Oct 18: Rail~volution: Will New Americans Fuel Smart Growth or Suburbanism? 0
• Oct 17: Lessons From the Former Chairman: Oberstar on Ending the Interstate Era 0
• Oct 13: Nice Try, GM. 0
• Oct 11: Transportation Projects Chosen For Federal Fast-Tracking Lean Multi-Modal 0
• Oct 05: Get on the Bus (With Everybody Else) 0
• Oct 04: USDOT Tries to Resuscitate the HSR Dreams Congress Wants to Bury 0
• Oct 04: McConnell Spoiling For a Fight Over Jobs Bill, House Passes Budget Extension 0
• Oct 03: Republicans Have Their Own Plan to Pay for Infrastructure Jobs: Oil Drilling 0
• Sep 29: Another Shutdown Avoided 0
• Sep 28: Will Obama’s Transportation Jobs Plan Avoid Funding Sprawl? 0
• Sep 28: TTI: Mass Transit Saved Drivers 45.4 Million Hours Last Year 0
• Sep 27: Would President Romney Build Roads or Rail? 0
• Sep 26: New Survey Numbers Show Surprising, But Slight, Dip in Bike Commuting 0
• Sep 23: Dealbreaker: Senate Rejects House Budget Due to Lack of Car Subsidies 0
• Sep 23: In Push For Jobs Bill, Obama Picks the Wrong Bridge to Highlight 0
• Sep 22: Senate Saves a Sliver For High-Speed Rail 0
• Sep 21: Communities Urge Congress: “Don’t X Out Transit” 0
• Sep 21: Senate Strips High-Speed Rail Funding 0
• Sep 20: Eco-Libertarian Alliance Pushes Replacement of Rural Air Service With Buses 0
• Sep 20: Federal Support for Smart Planning Is on the Line Today 0
• Sep 19: Obama: “I Will Veto Any Bill” Without Tax Increases on the Wealthy 0
• Sep 16: Boxer Clarifies: Transportation Enhancements Will Remain in the Bill 0
• Sep 16: The Stranger: If Safer Streets Mean War, We’re Ready for Combat 0
• Sep 16: Last-Minute Deal Preserves Bike/Ped Funding. But For How Long? 0
• Sep 15: T4America to Sen. Coburn: Cutting Bike/Ped Won’t Fix Oklahoma’s Problems 0
• Sep 14: Coburn Blocks Quick Senate Vote on Transportation Extension 0
• Sep 14: How Dangerous is Sen. Coburn’s Amendment to Kill Bike/Ped Funding? 0
• Sep 13: House Passes Transportation Extension Unanimously 0
• Sep 13: Fact Check: Sen. Sessions Gets It Wrong On Bike Paths in His Hometown 0
• Sep 12: House and Senate Agree on 6-Month Transpo Extension 0
• Sep 12: Rail Advocates: House Bill Would Kill Amtrak 0
• Sep 09: Obama Includes Infra Bank in His Jobs Push; Mica Rejects It Out of Hand 0
• Sep 09: Good News and Bad News: Obama’s Plan Would Work, But GOP Won’t Pass It 0
• Sep 08: Behind President Obama’s Call For More Infrastructure Projects 0
• Sep 07: The Consequences of Political Foot Dragging 0
• Sep 07: The Senate’s “Dr. No” Says He’ll Block An Extension Unless Bike/Ped Is Cut 0
• Sep 06: GOP Leader’s Infra “Compromise” Is Just Another Ploy to Kill Bike/Ped 0
• Sep 02: Boxer and Johnson Warn Senators of Job Losses If Transpo Bill Isn’t Extended 0
• Sep 01: President Obama Pushes Congress For a Clean Extension of Transpo Bill 0
• Aug 31: With Deadlines Looming, Mica Supports Transportation Extension 0
• Aug 30: Well That’s a Relief: Hurricane Irene Shouldn’t Affect Gas Prices Much 0
• Aug 17: Taking Greyhound? Papers, Please. 0
• Aug 16: Sure, Leave Gas Tax Collection to Liberal Tax-and-Spend States Like Georgia 0
• Aug 15: Civil Rights Group Demands End to Car-Centric Transportation Policies 0
• Aug 15: The Environmental Impact of Your Two-Wheeled Commute 0
• Aug 11: Absent a Transportation Bill, DOT Can Innovate All On Its Own 0
• Aug 09: Alex Steffen: We Can’t Avert Climate Change Without Dense Cities 0
• Aug 09: Report: Get Out of the Highway-Obsessed Eisenhower Era 0
• Aug 08: T4America Responds to the Raquel Nelson Case in the Washington Post 0
• Aug 05: Larry Hanley: Part-Time Labor Won’t Save American Transit 0
• Aug 04: ATU President Larry Hanley on How to Build a Strong Coalition for Transit 0
• Aug 03: Report: Finance Committee Has Closed the $12 Billion Gap In Senate Bill 0
• Aug 02: Debt Deal Could Mean More Painful Cuts for Transportation 0
• Jul 29: The Latest Target of House Spending Cuts: EPA’s Smart Growth Office 0
• Jul 28: Onion: Al-Qaeda Would Reduce U.S. Infrastructure to Rubble But It’s Too Late 0
• Jul 26: Chamber of Commerce: Empty Asphalt = Good Transportation Performance 0
• Jul 25: Raquel Nelson Speaks on the Today Show About Her Son and Her Court Case 0
• Jul 25: The Streets and the Courts Failed Raquel Nelson. Can Advocacy Save Her? 0
• Jul 21: Boxer to Villaraigosa: Don’t Worry, We Got Bike-Ped. Funding, and More from This Morning’s Senate Hearing 0
• Jul 21: GOP ‘Streamlining’ Plan Threatens to Clear a Path for Highways and Pollution 0
• Jul 19: What Bipartisanship Hath Wrought: Zilch for Bike-Ped in Senate Bill Outline 0
• Jul 18: Rich People Love Sidewalks, And Other Livability Lessons From USDOT 0
• Jul 18: House Republicans False Choice: High Speed Rail or Flood Relief 0
• Jul 15: Desperately Seeking: One Senate Transportation Bill, Preferably Bipartisan 0
• Jul 14: Redefining Pedestrian Unfriendly – GA Mom Convicted of Homicide for Crossing Street 0
• Jul 13: CRS: Northeast Corridor Privatization Plan Violates Constitution 0
• Jul 13: Ford, Verizon Support Distracted-Driver Law — And Its Loophole 0
• Jul 12: Mica: Why Are the Democrats Picking On Me? 0
• Jul 12: Bi-Partisan Political Veterans Team Up to Design a New Gas Tax System 0
• Jul 08: Mica: “The Focus of the Bill Is on the National Highway System” 0
• Jul 07: Mica’s Transportation Proposal: Responses Flood In 0
• Jul 07: Lawmakers Reject House Starvation Levels For Transportation 0
• Jul 06: Finally: Rustlings of a Reauthorization 0
• Jun 30: TIGER III Will Grant $527 Million For Innovative Transportation Projects 0
• Jun 30: Transportation Sec. Ray LaHood Answers Streetsblog Readers’ Questions 0
• Jun 30: Stimulus-Backed Programs Struggle to Stay Alive After Funds Run Out 0
• Jun 29: Feds. Release New Starts Funding List Without NY/NJ Tunnel 0
• Jun 28: Rumor Mill: House Leadership Hostile to Transpo Reauthorization 0
• Jun 24: Expect Two (Radically Different) Reauthorization Proposals Soon 0
• Jun 23: 25 Senators Demand Robust Transit Funding, But Not Boxer or Feinstein 0
• Jun 22: Bike-Ped Defunding Proposal Sparks Mutiny in Mica’s Home District 0
• Jun 20: Bipartisan Policy Center Proposes Major Redesign of Federal Funding 0
• Jun 15: House Transportation Committee Will Unveil Part of Transpo Bill Next Week 0
• Jun 14: Ray LaHood Wants to Hear From Streetsblog Readers 0
• Jun 13: Fareed Zakaria: Republicans Should Embrace an Infrastructure Bank 0
• Jun 10: One Way to Cure Congestion: Urban Abandonment 0
• Jun 09: Can High-Speed Rail Reduce Air Travel and Highway Expansion? 0
• Jun 09: GM CEO: “We Ought to Just Slap a Dollar Tax on a Gallon of Gas” 0
• Jun 08: Cul-de-Sacs Are Killing Us: Public Safety Lessons From Suburbia 0
• Jun 03: Highwayman Inhofe Still Wants to Rob Bike/Ped Funding From Transpo Bill 0
• Jun 03: Video: LaHood Answers Questions About Bike Lanes, Fuel Economy, and HSR 0
• Jun 03: Lawmakers Introduce Reality-Based Plan to Achieve “Freedom From Oil” 0
• Jun 02: What The Debt Ceiling Vote Means For Transportation 0
• Jun 01: Study: Building Roads to Cure Congestion Is an Exercise in Futility 0
• May 31: Complete Streets Bill Introduced in Senate 0
• May 23: Mica and Nadler Duke It Out on the Pages of Politico Over Transpo Funding 0
• May 23: Experts Agree: Six-Year Transportation Bill Won’t Pass This Year 0
• May 20: Good News From the Senate: Transit Operating Assistance and Much More 0
• May 19: AASHTO Approves First New Bicycle Routes in 30 Years 0
• May 18: Ray LaHood Gets Behind 2 Mile Challenge 0
• May 17: Seven Transportation Improvements Everyone Can Agree On 0
• May 16: So Many Subsidies for Big Oil, So Little Political Will to End Them 0
• May 13: Don’t Hold Your Breath for a White House Transportation Bill 0
• May 13: Sens. Rockefeller, Lautenberg Compete With Kerry’s Infrastructure Bank 0
• May 12: How Would Blumenauer’s New Commuter Benefit Proposal Work? 1
• May 11: Knowing Is Half the Battle: States Lack Data to Make Good Transpo Decisions 0
• May 11: Tales From the Post-Earmark Era: Pork Won’t Hog the Transpo Money 0
• May 09: Northeast Corridor, the Midwest, and California Say “Thanks, Florida!” 0
• May 09: So Much for Supply and Demand: Transit Ridership Spikes, Funding Plummets 0
• May 06: Reps. Matsui, LaTourette Introduce Complete Streets Bill 0
• May 05: Well That Was Quick: Obama Disavows Mileage Fee Proposal 0
• May 05: Obama Wants to Study Viability of Mileage-Based Fee for Transpo Revenue 0
• May 05: Republicans Still Swear Drill, Baby, Drill Is the Best Way to Lower Gas Prices 0
• May 04: President Obama’s Transportation Bill Prioritizes Livability, High-Speed Rail 0
• May 03: Mayors Rebel Against State-Controlled Highway Expansion, Fight For Transit 0
• May 02: How to Get People to Adopt More Climate-Friendly Behaviors 0
• Apr 29: President Obama Expected to Release Proposed Transportation Bill 0
• Apr 26: Without Adequate Federal Funding, Will States Raise Their Own Gas Taxes? 0
• Apr 22: TIGER III Is Grrrrrr-eat News for Transportation Agencies 0
• Apr 22: What the Feds Giveth, the States Taketh Away — From Bike/Ped Programs 0
• Apr 20: States Begin to Consider the Benefits of a Two-Year Transportation Bill 0
• Apr 20: A Two-Year Transportation Bill? Some Say It’s a Better Deal 0
• Apr 20: Is the Realtors’ Survey Really a Ringing Endorsement of Smart Growth? 0
• Apr 18: $100 Million for HUD Sustainability Program Survives in This Year’s Budget 0
• Apr 18: Senate Introduces a Narrower Bill for Wider Sidewalks 0
• Apr 14: Obama’s Deficit Reduction Plan Will Look Beyond the “Twelve Percent” 0
• Apr 13: House Dems Release Alternative to GOP Budget, Separate From Obama 0
• Apr 12: High-Speed Rail Funds Get Slashed in Detailed Budget Plan 0
• Apr 11: You Can Open Your Eyes Now: Budget Deal Spares Transpo the Worst 0
• Apr 08: Government Shutdown Would Be a Punch in the Gut to Transit Agencies 0
• Apr 04: Lowlights From the Transpo Bill Hearing: A Tea Partier Tries to De-Fund Transit 0
• Apr 01: More From the House Transpo Hearings: The Advocates Edition 0
• Mar 31: Strange Bedfellows Unite for Infrastructure Investment, Financing Tools 0
• Mar 31: Forty Transportation Experts, One Message 0
• Mar 30: Day Two of Massive Transportation Committee Hearing Underway 0
• Mar 30: Aviation Bill: Foretelling What’s to Come For Surface Transportation? 0
• Mar 29: CBO: Mileage Fee Would Cover the Full Costs of Driving Better Than Gas Tax 0
• Mar 25: Can Transit-Oriented Development Lift All Boats? 0
• Mar 24: The Secrets to Success for Transit-Oriented Development 0
• Mar 16: Rep. LaTourette Tells Transit Advocates to Ask Congress for What They Need 0
• Mar 16: “Grab a Hold of Your Shorts”: Mica and LaHood Talk Transportation Bill 0
• Mar 15: Kerry, Hutchinson, and Warner Introduce New Infrastructure Bank Bill 0
• Mar 14: AP: Will Senate Republicans Send Back Their Own States’ TIGER Money? 0
• Mar 11: Boxer Pushes LaHood on Financing for Transportation 0
• Mar 10: “Mad Men” Stars Have a New Product to Pitch: High-Speed Rail 0
• Mar 09: Cyclists Gathered at Bike Summit Are Told Not to “Wait for Washington” 0
• Mar 09: Can the U.S. Make Bus Rapid Transit Work as Well as Latin America? 0
• Mar 08: State Transpo Officials Push to Toll for Maintenance, Not Just Capacity 0
• Mar 07: Transpo’s Losses in First Round of Federal Cuts Look Worse Than They Are 0
• Mar 07: Yes, Transit Belongs in the Highway Trust Fund 0
• Mar 04: Senators Hammer LaHood for Specifics on Funding His Transpo Plan 0
• Mar 04: Senate Passes Transportation Extension 0
• Mar 03: House Passes Seventh Extension of Transportation Bill 0
• Mar 03: Mica, LaHood Stump at AASHTO Meeting 0
• Mar 02: Mica on the Next Transportation Bill: Size Matters 0
• Mar 01: GAO: Trucking the Least Efficient Mode of Freight Shipping 0
• Mar 01: Transportation 101: Cliff’s Notes for the Reauthorization Debate 0
• Feb 28: AASHTO: Government Shutdown Could Cost Transportation Sector $100M/Day 0
• Feb 24: The Economist: “Rock-Bottom” U.S. Gas Tax Makes Gas Cheaper Than Water 0
• Feb 23: How Hard Will the Senate Fight Back Against House Spending Cuts? 0
• Feb 17: AFL-CIO and Chamber Ask For a Gas Tax Increase, Senators Agree 0
• Feb 16: Are Environmental Reviews to Blame for Infrastructure Project Delays? 0
• Feb 15: 55 FHWA Programs You Won’t Have to Kick Around Anymore 0
• Feb 15: Obama Admin’s Bold Transpo Plan Leaves Funding Question to Congress 0
• Feb 14: Obama Budget Proposes $556B, Long-term Transportation Bill 0
• Feb 11: Buses vs. Rail: Conservatives Do Battle Over Which Mode is Better 0
• Feb 11: Retired Military Leaders, Corporate CEOs: Driving Alone Aids Terrorists 0
• Feb 10: House Democrats Begin to Push Back on Draconian GOP Spending Cuts 0
• Feb 10: GOP Moves Ahead With Deep Cuts to Transportation, Housing 0
• Feb 09: Key House Republicans Aren’t Buying Administration HSR Proposal 0
• Feb 08: “Amtrak Joe” Biden, in Philly, Announces a New Plan for High-Speed Rail 0
• Feb 08: SGA: Transportation Funding Pays Big Dividends Only If Invested Wisely 0
• Feb 08: Obama Finally Brings the Chamber a Fruitcake (It’s Called Infrastructure) 0
• Feb 07: GOP Targets Transportation, Housing For the Deepest Cuts 0
• Feb 07: AASHTO Suggests Some Tools for Getting Out of the Transpo Funding Mess 0
• Feb 04: Boxer Will Co-Chair Hearing on Transpo. Reauthorization in L.A. 0
• Feb 03: APTA Survey: Transpo Bill Delay May Force Job Losses in U.S. Transit Industry 0
• Feb 02: What Will Become of Amtrak If It’s Left Out of Plans to Expand HSR? 0
• Feb 01: Biggest TRB Meeting Ever Highlights Visionary Bicycle Research 0
• Jan 28: Schedule for Transpo Bill Listening Tour Announced 1
• Jan 28: Transportation Committee Shrinks, EPW Announces New Members 0
• Jan 27: CA Rep. Hunter: Roads Constitutionally Mandated, Transit Must Pay For Itself 0
• Jan 27: House Transpo Committee Promises Bipartisanship, to Tackle Aviation First 0
• Jan 26: Senate Committee Backs Infrastructure Spending (But Not For Bike Lanes) 0
• Jan 26: St. Louis: Plenty of Highways, Little Congestion, Long Commutes 0
• Jan 25: Obama: Europe and Russia Invest More in Roads and Railways Than We Do 0
• Jan 25: Will President Obama Speak for the Transit-Starved Tonight? 0
• Jan 25: NTPP: Infrastructure Investment Will Only Boost the Economy If Done Right 0
• Jan 24: Get Rich While Reducing Emissions: Smart Growth Keeps Looking Smarter 0
• Jan 21: Republicans Propose Spending Cuts Targeting Amtrak, Transit Funding 0
• Jan 21: LaHood Goes to Detroit to Talk to Automakers About Distracted Driving 0
• Jan 20: Highway-Affiliated Pew Climate Report Favors “Clean” Cars Over Transit 0
• Jan 19: Home Builders Urge Fannie, Freddie to Get Behind Mixed-Use Development 0
• Jan 14: Mica’s Goal: More Cars Off of the Highway 0
• Jan 14: Is the Livability Movement Doomed to Homogeneity? The CDC Says No. 0
• Jan 13: High Speed Rail: Which Corridors Have the Best Chance for Success? 0
• Jan 11: Mica is “Pretty Confident” That New Rules Won’t Starve Highway Trust Fund 0
• Jan 11: Household Deficit Reduction: Transit Saves People Almost $10K a Year 0
• Jan 10: Combat Joblessness, Stripe a Bike Lane 0
• Jan 10: We’re Pulling for You, Gabby Giffords 0
• Jan 07: New House Rules Threaten TIGER and Livability Programs 0
• Jan 07: Sen. Boxer: Working With Mica, Inhofe on a Long-Term Transpo Bill 0
• Jan 06: Auto Sales Rise Along With Gas Prices (Though Nowhere Near $5/Gallon) 0
• Jan 05: Send in Your Transpo Questions for the 112th Congress 3
• Jan 04: Food Deserts: Another Way the Deck Is Stacked Against Car-Free Americans 0
• Jan 04: Actually, Highway Builders, Roads Don’t Pay For Themselves 0
• Jan 03: Republicans Want to Hoard Transpo Money and Call It Deficit Reduction 0

• 2010

• Dec 22: Senate Vote Will Give GOP a Crack at the Transpo Bill Sooner 0
• Dec 21: LaHood: High Speed Rail Will Be Our Generation’s Legacy 0
• Dec 17: Mica Names New GOP Transpo Committee Members, Rahall Officially Top Dem 0
• Dec 16: CA Mayors Ask Sen. Barbara Boxer for a 21st Century Transpo System 0
• Dec 15: Transit Benefit (Wrapped in Tax Cuts) Clears the Senate 0
• Dec 14: Report: California Leads Nation in Green Transpo Policies. 0
• Dec 14: AAA Gets an Earful From Members About Equality For Bikes 0
• Dec 10: Would an Infrastructure Bank Have the Power to Reform Transportation? 0
• Dec 09: Mica Confirmed as Transpo Committee Chair 0
• Dec 09: House Punts on Budget, Votes on Yearlong Extension Instead 0
• Dec 08: What the GOP Spending Rollback Would Mean for Transportation 0
• Dec 07: Why Reformers Should Care How We Pay for Transportation 0
• Dec 03: Deficit Commission Pushes For Anti-Sprawl Reforms 0
• Dec 03: EPA Recognizes Small Towns and Big Cities For Smart Growth Efforts 0
• Dec 01: GOP Demands a Stop to Stim Spending. What Will It Mean for Rail Projects? 0
• Nov 30: Rahall Responds, Says His Transpo Record Is About More Than Just Highways 0
• Nov 30: Earmark Ban Goes Down to Defeat in the Senate 0
• Nov 29: Another Day, Another Revelation That a Gas Tax Hike Is Necessary 0
• Nov 23: Livability and the GOP: A Conversation With HUD’s Mariia Zimmerman 0
• Nov 19: Bachmann: It’s Not an Earmark if It’s for Highways and Bridges 0
• Nov 19: Dutch Planners School U.S. Cities on Bikeability 0
• Nov 17: Seatbelts and Tickets Alone Won’t Cure America’s Traffic Death Epidemic 0
• Nov 17: Oberstar’s Final Words of Wisdom 0
• Nov 15: Auto Industry Celebrates a Republican House It Helped Put In Power 0
• Nov 12: Our Stagnant Gas Tax Rate Is Making the Deficit Worse 0
• Nov 12: The Power of the Pursestrings Shifts to a Livability Denier in the House 0
• Nov 11: What Does It Take to Win a Planning Grant From the Feds? 0
• Nov 10: Could a Coal-n-Highways Dem Take Oberstar’s Place on Transpo Committee? 0
• Nov 10: Just How Lame Will This Lame Duck Be? 0
• Nov 09: Obama Still Believes in a Bipartisan Push for Infrastructure. Do You? 0
• Nov 08: Wisconsin, Ohio Governors-Elect Press Ahead to Pull the Plug on Rail 0
• Nov 04: Eliminate Waste or Kill Good Projects? Earmark Ban Could Cut Both Ways 1
• Nov 04: Oberstar Says Goodbye, Mica Promises Rail and a Long-Term Bill 0
• Nov 03: Election Results: GOP Govs Win Big, Dems Take California, Oberstar Ousted 0
• Nov 02: Election Day Finds Two Livability Champions on the Ropes 0
• Nov 01: Bike-Ped Funding Dips as Stimulus Spending Slows 0
• Oct 28: A Second Look at Brown v Whitman 0
• Oct 28: T4America Maps TIGER Grantees: Find One Near You 0
• Oct 27: Texas Gov Rick Perry Could Get Four More Years to Build Mega-Highways 0
• Oct 26: Will Bike-Phobic Dan Maes Cost the Colorado GOP Major Party Status? 0
• Oct 26: Avoiding the Unintended Consequences of Transit-Oriented Development 0
• Oct 21: If You Come, They Will Build It: Notes on Livability From Rail~volution 0
• Oct 20: How to Slay a Highway: Notes on the Mt. Hood Freeway and Harbor Drive 0
• Oct 19: Fighting Freeways: War Stories From Portland 0
• Oct 15: HUD Announces Winners of $100M in Sustainability Grants 0
• Oct 14: Five Reasons Reformers Are Rallying Behind Obama’s Transpo Push 0
• Oct 12: Drawing Ideas From Reformers, Obama Gets Behind 6-Year Transpo Plan 0
• Oct 08: How the Information Age Can Make Streets and Transit More Efficient 0
• Oct 07: High-Speed Rail vs. Low-Cost Bus 0
• Oct 06: If Republicans Take the House, What Happens to Transportation Reform? 0
• Oct 06: Former US DOT Bosses Call for Mileage Tax and Congestion Fees 0
• Oct 05: FTA: Transit Maintenance — Not Just Expansion — Will Grow Ridership 1
• Oct 04: State DOTs Make Deeper Bike-Ped Budget Cuts Than Expected 0
• Sep 30: High-Speed Rail: Do We Have the Will? 0
• Sep 29: Barbara Boxer Questions Need for Infrastructure Bank 0
• Sep 29: Obama Admin Will Make Its Transportation Push… During the Next Congress 0
• Sep 28: Applications for TIGER II Funding Overwhelm What U.S. DOT Can Dish Out 0
• Sep 21: Will the Next Merit-Based Transpo Program Rock Harder Than TIGER? 0