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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 21: Suburbanization of Poverty Isolates a Growing Number of Americans 0
• May 20: Obama’s Budget Would Save the Transpo Trust Fund. If Only It Were Real. 0
• May 15: Seven Ways Technology Is Rendering the Automobile Obsolete 0
• May 15: Refereeing the Raging Debate Over the “Specialness” of Cyclists 0
• May 14: Millennials Will Drive More As They Age, But Still Less Than Their Parents 0
• May 13: Parking Crater Champion Tulsa Moves to Limit Surface Parking Downtown 0
• May 13: Celebrate Bike to Work Week, No Matter What You Weigh 0
• May 10: How Green Is Grocery Delivery in Cities? 0
• May 10: Commuter Idyll Winner Jake Williams Tells His Dramatic Story of Salvation 0
• May 09: Dreamy Routines: Some of Our Readers’ Best “Commuter Idylls” 0
• May 06: Surviving a War Abroad Only to Die Back Home Behind the Wheel 0
• May 06: NHTSA: Traffic Deaths Shot Up 5.3 Percent to 34,080 in 2012 0
• May 03: Sustainability Busts Out of Its Cubicle, Permeates DOT, HUD, and EPA 0
• May 02: Tell Us About Your “Commuter Idyll” 0
• Apr 30: Does President Obama Have the Power to Influence Transportation Policy? 0
• Apr 29: Meet Your Next Transportation Secretary 0
• Apr 26: TIGER’s Love Affair With Freight — And Bikes 0
• Apr 25: Pretty Please: U.S. DOT Asks Carmakers to Limit Onboard Distractions 0
• Apr 25: How TIGER Transformed Transport Planning — And Lived to Tell About It 0
• Apr 23: No Surprise Here: Drivers Don’t Want to Pay Higher Gas Taxes 0
• Apr 19: After Years of Unchecked Sprawl, Employment Inches Closer to the City 0
• Apr 16: Reps. Duncan and Nadler Will Lead New T&I Panel on Freight 0
• Apr 12: Counting Bikes and Cars Without a Clipboard 0
• Apr 08: How to Write a Complete Streets Policy 0
• Apr 04: 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 28: Congress to U.S. DOT: The Roads Aren’t Safe Until They’re Safe For Everyone 0
• Mar 28: More March Madness: REI Pits Cycling Cities Against Each Other 0
• Mar 27: Another Slanted High-Speed Rail Story From Anderson Cooper 0
• Mar 25: Will New Oil Supplies Slow the Transition to Green Transportation? 0
• Mar 22: Study: Homes Near Transit Were Insulated From the Housing Crash 0
• Mar 21: Freeways Without Futures: CNU Is Taking Nominations! 0
• Mar 20: Is ASCE Failing to Tell America to Spend Wisely on Infrastructure? 0
• Mar 18: Obama’s Clean Energy Policy Elevates Efficient Cars Over Efficient Modes 0
• Mar 15: CDC: Americans Drive Distracted Waaaay More Than Europeans 0
• Mar 11: Transit Trips Rose Faster Than Driving in 2012, Despite Impact of Sandy 0
• Mar 08: Bicycling Means Business: How Cycling Enriches People and Cities 0
• Mar 08: In Violation of MAP-21 Promises, House Votes to Cut Transportation Spending 0
• Mar 07: Congress Comes to the Bike Summit (and the Bike Summit Goes to Congress) 0
• Mar 06: Bike Summit: With a Seat at the Table, Cyclists Need to Master the Etiquette 0
• Mar 06: AAA Releases Bike Safety PSA at Bike Summit 0
• Mar 04: How to Diversify Bicycle Culture in Three Easy Steps 0
• Feb 28: U.S. DOT to Challenge AASHTO Supremacy on Bike/Ped Safety Standards 0
• Feb 28: Budget Sequester Could Throw a Wrench Into Transit Expansion Projects 0
• Feb 25: Sequestration Week: Will Congress Find a Solution By Friday? Does It Matter? 0
• Feb 15: Ray LaHood: “It’s Not Just About Emissions” 0
• Feb 14: Ray LaHood: “Sitting on the Sidelines Doesn’t Accomplish Anything” 0
• Feb 13: The Ray LaHood Exit Interview 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 06: So God Created Transit: A Fitting Response to Dodge Ram’s Super Bowl Ad 0
• Feb 06: Gary Toth: TTI Congestion Scores Prove Road Expansion Isn’t the Answer 0
• Jan 31: Keeping CNN Honest: 10 Ways Anderson Cooper Got the Rail Story Wrong 0
• Jan 30: How Will the Next Transpo Secretary Build on Ray LaHood’s Legacy? 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 24: Confronted With Congestion Pricing, People Clamor for Transit, Gas Tax 0
• Jan 22: Today’s Transit Dreams May Come True — 78 Years From Now 0
• Jan 18: Federal Transit Administration Grapples With Likely Funding Cuts 0
• Jan 17: 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 16: Biking Uphill Is Satisfying, and Other Bicycle Research From TRB 2013 0
• Jan 15: Today in Foreign Policy: American Interests Demand Walkable Communities 0
• Jan 14: 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 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 03: Mica’s New Post Gives Him a Good Vantage Point For Sniping at Amtrak 0
• Jan 03: Fiscal Cliff Deal Leaves Big Questions on Transportation 0

• 2012

• Dec 19: What Do Anti-Density NIMBYs and Road-Wideners Have in Common? 0
• Dec 19: Do Seniors Want the Livability Improvements AARP Wants For Them? 0
• Dec 18: Walk Score Ranks the Bikeability of Every Address in 36 Cities 0
• Dec 17: Blumenauer: Let’s Stop Hiding in Fear of a Mileage Fee 0
• Dec 17: New Black Box Rule Isn’t Enough to Hold Drivers Accountable For Ped Crashes 0
• Dec 14: 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: A “Movement For Movement” Puts Walking Front and Center 0
• Dec 05: Surgeon General Announces Call to Action on Walking 0
• Dec 04: Four Republicans Who Might Work Across the Aisle on Transportation 0
• Dec 03: Eight Burning Questions About Post-Election Transpo Policy and Politics 0
• Nov 29: What Would Meaningful Amtrak Reform Look Like? 0
• Nov 28: How States Are Adapting to MAP-21’s Changes to Bike/Ped Funding 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 Have Spoken: Janette Sadik-Khan For DOT Secretary 0
• Nov 16: Poll: Who Should Be the Next U.S. Transportation Secretary? 0
• Nov 15: Will the Next Transpo Chair Continue Attacks on Bike/Ped Funding? 0
• Nov 14: 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 12: Yes, We Have No Carbon Tax 0
• Nov 09: Communities Vote to Tax Themselves to Support Transit 0
• Nov 08: Boehner’s Cryptic Message on Taxes 0
• Nov 07: Election Reveals Who Will Shape the Next Transportation Bill 0
• Nov 06: Don’t Forget the Third Party Candidates! 0
• Nov 05: Which Mitt Would Shape U.S. Transpo Policy: The Governor or the Candidate? 0
• Nov 02: What Has President Obama Done to Improve American Transportation Policy? 0
• Oct 29: Infographic: The Many Connections Between Transportation and Health 0
• Oct 25: At NACTO Conference, LaHood Delivers Straight Talk on MAP-21 0
• Oct 24: Not a Word About Transit in Obama Jobs Plan 0
• Oct 12: DIY Urbanism: No Permits, No Red Tape, No Going Back 0
• Oct 12: Biden, Ryan Trade Automobile Horror Stories, Talk Up Car Jobs in VP Debate 0
• Oct 10: This Could Be the Biggest Year Ever for Transit at the Ballot Box 0
• Oct 05: NRDC Gives Gas Consumption Maps a Helpful Revision 0
• Oct 03: How MAP-21 Allocates Transpo Funds Where They’re Needed Least 0
• Oct 01: As MAP-21 Takes Effect, Road Builders Vie for TIFIA Funds 0
• Sep 28: Should Doctors Play a Role in Determining Who’s Fit to Drive? 0
• Sep 28: Which Counties Have the Biggest Oil Addiction Problem? We Still Don’t Know. 0
• Sep 27: LaHood Incorrectly Blames 80 Percent of Pedestrians for Their Own Deaths 0
• Sep 25: The Economist: Don’t Expect Driving Rates to Rise Again 0
• Sep 25: Walk Score Factors In the Ineffable Qualities That Make Neighborhoods Great 0
• Sep 24: Colorado Authorities Cite Driver for Cyclist Harassment 0
• Sep 24: UPDATED: Reminder: Amtrak Subsidies Pale in Comparison to Highway Subsidies 0
• Sep 20: Liberate Yourself From Costly Highway Expansion, State DOT! Here’s How. 0
• Sep 19: USA Today: Homebuilders Pass On Garages, Build Front Porches 0
• Sep 17: UPDATE: Here’s Your Chance to Influence MAP-21’s Implementation 0
• Sep 13: Leinberger: Walkable Urbanism Is the Future, and DC Is the Model 0
• Sep 12: NRDC Poll: Americans Support New Transit Twice as Much as New Roads 0
• Sep 11: How Highway Spending Could Become as Transparent as Bike/Ped Spending 0
• Sep 07: Politico: Boxer Already Working on the Next Transportation Bill 0
• Sep 06: NACTO Beats the Clock With Quick Update of Bike Guide 0
• Sep 05: September Brings “Back to School” Jump in Traffic Congestion 0
• Sep 04: Democratic Platform’s Scarce Words on Transportation Fail to Inspire 0
• Aug 30: Tennessee DOT Moves Past Road-Widening as a Congestion Reduction Strategy 0
• Aug 29: They Totally Went There: GOP Outlines Extremist Transpo Views in Platform 0
• Aug 28: Are Dense Urban Neighborhoods More Resilient During Natural Disasters? 0
• Aug 27: Will DOT’s New Freight Council Focus on More Than Trucks? 0
• Aug 24: Stroller-Share: Can I Get an Amen? 0
• Aug 23: Romney Energy Plan: More Drilling, More Oil Dependence 0
• Aug 22: Finally, the Presidential Race Turns to Transportation 0
• Aug 15: 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 03: Oregon Takes the Next Step in Moving Beyond the Gas Tax 0
• Aug 02: Governors Get on Board With Smart Growth 0
• Aug 01: White House Transportation “Champions” Didn’t Get There By Car 0
• Jul 31: How Much Bang Are Cities Getting From Federal BRT Bucks? 0
• Jul 27: Has DOT Retained a Bit of Say-So on TIFIA? 0
• Jul 26: Highway Builders to Party Leaders: The Future Is “More Than Just Roadways” 0
• Jul 25: No Explanations as Traffic Deaths Jump 13.5 Percent 0
• Jul 24: How State DOTs Got Congress to Grant Their Wish List 0
• Jul 24: Smart Growth America: States May Pave Over Their Own Good Intentions 0
• Jul 19: Why Congress Can’t Kill the Partnership for Sustainable Communities 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 12: 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: States Already Licking Their Chops Over Newly “Flexible” Bike/Ped Funds 0
• Jul 06: GOP’s “Bridge Repair, Not Bike Lanes” Mantra Was Just a Lot of Hot Air 0
• Jul 05: Civil Rights Groups to Build Toward 2014 Transportation Bill Reauthorization 0
• Jul 03: Under New Bill, America’s Transpo Loan Program Ignores National Goals 0
• Jun 29: A New Bill Passes, But America’s Transpo Policy Stays Stuck in 20th Century 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 Bike/Ped Protections Remain in Final Bill 0
• Jun 27: Transpo Bill Rumor: DeFazio Says Conference Committee ‘Gutted’ Bike/Ped 0
• Jun 27: Public Weight Loss Failure for Toronto’s Anti-Bike Mayor 0
• Jun 25: Pressure Mounts to Hold Sen. Boxer to Her Word on Safe Streets 0
• Jun 22: Advocates to Boxer: Save Funds for Safe Streets, Don’t Let House Gut NEPA 0
• Jun 22: “Transformative” Bike Projects Win Big in Fourth Round of TIGER Grants 0
• Jun 22: Making Lawmakers Answer For Pedestrian Deaths In Their Districts 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: No More Mr. Nice Guy: Transit Advocates Get Organized 0
• Jun 14: Boxer Changes Her Tone, Adopts a Fighting Stance 0
• Jun 11: House Attack on Safe Streets Makes Transpo Bill Ever More Elusive 0
• Jun 08: House GOP Threatens to Wipe Out Local Control Over Bike/Ped Funding 0
• Jun 07: Conference Devolves Into Talk Of Extensions 0
• Jun 06: House Appropriators Leave TIGER, HSR Out of Next Year’s Budget 0
• Jun 05: Stakeholders Beg Conferees to Stop Acting Like Children 0
• Jun 04: FRA Chief: America Is Driving Less and Congress Needs to Catch Up 0
• May 23: Tea Party Republicans Take Aim at Bike-Ped Funding in Conference 0
• May 22: Washington Post: Have We Lost Our Passion for the Automobile? 0
• May 22: U.S. DOT Spells Out Priorities For Conference Bill 0
• May 21: House Members Try to Work Their Will in Conference 0
• May 18: Study Predicts “Resilient Walkable” Places Will Lead the Housing Recovery 0
• May 15: RAND: Car-Sharing Could Cut Carbon Emissions From Cars By 1.7 Percent 0
• May 14: Walk Score Calculates City Bikeability, SF Comes in Second to Minneapolis 0
• May 10: Are Americans Driving Less Because They’re Working Less? 0
• May 08: Seven Questions as Transportation Bill Conference Gets Underway 0
• May 04: Political Jockeying Over Gas Prices Is Divorced From Reality 0
• May 02: Mapped: Dramatic Changes on London Streets in the Congestion Pricing Era 0
• May 02: 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: Have a Question for Secretary LaHood? Ask It Here 0
• Apr 30: FRA Guidance on Pedestrian Safety Still Misses the Real Problem 0
• Apr 24: Five Ex-Secretaries Map Out a Communications Strategy For Transportation 0
• Apr 20: Celebrate Earth Day the FTA Way, With a Map of Sustainable Transpo Projects 0
• Apr 16: Patent Troll Sues Transit Agencies For Releasing Real-Time Transit Info 0
• Apr 13: House GOP Tries to Horse-Trade Senate Bill For Keystone Pipeline 0
• Apr 03: HUD: Now’s the Time to Tell Congress Why Smart Planning Matters 0
• Mar 27: Can a 100% Private Passenger Rail Line Turn a Profit? 0
• Mar 26: Why Bicyclists Are Better Customers Than Drivers for Local Business 0
• Mar 23: To Change Your Community’s Streets, the Action Is in the Statehouse 0
• Mar 21: Why Are Three Out of Four Cyclists on the Street Men? 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 12: Despite Nods to Transit, House GOP Still All About Highways 0
• Mar 02: AASHTO’s Vision of Safe Streets for Seniors: Bigger Type on Highway Signs 0
• Feb 28: Don’t Call It a Merger: America’s Big Three Bike/Ped Advocates Join Forces 0
• Jan 06: Was Eric Cantor Forced to Ride This Bike? 0
• Jan 05: Conservative Pols Hate Government Subsidies, Unless They Subsidize Sprawl 0
• Jan 04: Romney Wins Iowa, Loses the Rail-Passenger Vote 0
• Jan 03: Record Fuel Exports Don’t Mean the U.S. Is Not Addicted to Foreign Oil 0

• 2011

• Dec 19: Lawmakers Push to Fund Transit Service During Economic Emergencies 0
• Dec 15: NTSB: States Should Ban Hands-Free Calls While Driving 0
• Dec 14: TIGER III News Begins to Leak — Chicago Bike-Share Among the Winners 0
• Dec 12: Transit’s Not Bleeding the Taxpayer Dry — Roads Are 0
• Dec 09: Another GOP Transportation Proposal That’s Really All About Oil Drilling 0
• Dec 08: Combating the Myth That Complete Streets Are Too Expensive 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 02: Is Transpo Funding Fundamentally a PR Problem? Five Ex-DOT Chiefs Discuss 0
• Nov 29: Mapped: How Federal Funding Fails to Match Demand for Transit in the U.S. 0
• Nov 23: Mapping the Consequences of Our Automobile Addiction 0
• Nov 22: What Will the Senate Bill’s Transit Section Look Like? 0
• Nov 22: Supercommittee Goes Bust, Lone Prospect of Gas Tax Hike Dissolves 0
• Nov 21: Taxpayer Group: GOP Drill Bill “Not a Responsible Budget Approach” 0
• Nov 17: No Details Yet on House Transportation and Oil Drilling Bill 0
• Nov 16: The Anatomy of a Successful Transit Ballot Measure 0
• Nov 16: 2012 Transpo Budget: Sustainable Communities and HSR Out, TIGER In 0
• Nov 15: Mica Warns Boxer on Highway Trust Fund; House Plans Hearing on “Drill Bill” 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 11: What’s Wrong With Telling Cyclists to Ride on the Bike Path? 0
• Nov 10: Nine Reasons For Bike/Ped Advocates to Take Heart: The Senate Edition 0
• Nov 10: More Election Results: Transit Wins Big 0
• Nov 09: Two-Year Transpo Bill Moves on to Full Senate Without Bike/Ped Protections 0
• Nov 08: Today Is Decision Time For Local Transit Contests 0
• Nov 07: Coming Soon: Super-Partisan “Oil-For-Infrastructure” Transpo Bill 0
• Nov 04: Two Infrastructure Jobs Bills Die in Senate 0
• Nov 03: The New California HSR Plan: Forecast of Doom or Blueprint for the Future? 0
• Nov 03: Today: Senate Debates Infra Bank, Transpo Funding, Regulations, and More 0
• Nov 02: 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 Safe as Senate Rejects Rand Paul’s Amendment 0
• Oct 28: Why Create an Infrastructure Bank When We Could Just Expand TIFIA? 0
• Oct 27: Strike Three: Another Senator Takes Another Swipe At Bike-Ped Funding 0
• Oct 27: Transforming Tysons Corner: A High-Stakes Suburban Retrofit 0
• Oct 25: The Federal Government’s Smart Growth-Inspired Landlord 0
• Oct 19: Even the Godfather of Rail~Volution Wouldn’t Raise the Gas Tax Right Now 0
• Oct 17: Rail~volution: Will New Americans Fuel Smart Growth or Suburbanism? 0
• Oct 14: Lessons From the Former Chairman: Oberstar on Ending the Interstate Era 0
• Oct 14: Mica Won’t Say Where Transpo Funding Will Come From; LaHood Defends TE 0
• Oct 14: Ray LaHood Won’t Stay at USDOT Past 2012 0
• Oct 13: Will New Infrastructure Funding Survive the Demise of Obama’s Jobs Bill? 0
• Oct 12: GM to College Students: Stop Pedaling, Start Driving 0
• Oct 11: Transportation Projects Chosen For Federal Fast-Tracking Lean Multi-Modal 0
• Oct 07: Does the Elusive Infrastructure Bank Already Exist? 0
• Oct 05: House to Vote on Cement Industry Environmental Regulations 0
• Oct 05: Transit Union Challenges NYPD Order to Help Arrest Fellow Protestors 0
• Oct 04: Get on the Bus (With Everybody Else) 0
• Oct 04: McConnell Spoiling For a Fight Over Jobs Bill, House Passes Budget Extension 0
• Oct 04: USDOT Tries to Resuscitate the HSR Dreams Congress Wants to Bury 0
• Oct 03: Cantor Orders Up Tax Cuts, Hold the Jobs 0
• Sep 28: Will Obama’s Transportation Jobs Plan Avoid Funding Sprawl? 0
• Sep 27: TTI: Mass Transit Saved Drivers 45.4 Million Hours Last Year 0
• Sep 27: Would Romney Build Roads or Rail? 0
• Sep 26: New Survey Numbers Show Surprising, But Slight, Dip in Bike Commuting 0
• Sep 23: Mica, GOP Leadership Looking to Raise Transportation Spending Levels in Bill 0
• Sep 23: MoveOn Takes On Infrastructure 0
• Sep 23: Dealbreaker: Senate Rejects House Budget Due to Lack of Car Subsidies 0
• Sep 22: Senate Saves a Sliver For High-Speed Rail 0
• Sep 21: Communities Urge Congress: “Don’t X Out Transit” 0
• Sep 20: Senate Strips High-Speed Rail Funding 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: Harry Reid Calls Bike Facilities “Absolutely Important” 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: Boehner: Lets Build Highways to Transport Fossil Fuels 0
• Sep 15: Sen. Boxer Spoiling For a “Fight” Over Transportation Enhancements 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: House Prepares to Vote on Extension, Coburn Will Try to Kill Bike/Ped 0
• Sep 12: House and Senate Agree on 6-Month Transpo Extension 0
• Sep 09: Obama Includes Infra Bank in His Jobs Push; Mica Rejects It Out of Hand 0
• Sep 08: House GOP’s 2012 Transportation Budget: Deep Cuts, Especially for Livability 0
• Sep 08: Inhofe Supports Clean Extension, Won’t Vote Against Bike/Ped (This Time) 0
• Sep 07: The Consequences of Political Foot-Dragging 0
• Sep 07: Behind President Obama’s Call For More Infrastructure Projects 0
• Sep 06: 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 01: Boxer and Johnson Warn Senators of Job Losses If Transpo Bill Isn’t Extended 0
• Sep 01: Tennessee Mom Threatened With Arrest For Letting Daughter Bike to School 0
• Aug 31: President Obama Pushes Congress For a Clean Extension of Transpo Bill 0
• Aug 30: 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 16: Taking Greyhound? Papers, Please. 0
• Aug 15: 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 12: The Environmental Impact of Your Two-Wheeled Commute 0
• Aug 11: It’s Official: Congress’s Next Spitting Contest Will Be Over the Gas Tax 0
• Aug 10: Absent a Transportation Bill, DOT Can Innovate All On Its Own 0
• Aug 10: Feds Call “All Hands On Deck” For Detroit Transit 0
• Aug 09: Alex Steffen: We Can’t Avert Climate Change Without Dense Cities 0
• Aug 08: Report: Get Out of the Highway-Obsessed Eisenhower Era 0
• Jul 28: The Latest Target of House Spending Cuts: EPA’s Smart Growth Office 0
• Jul 28: Mica and Rail Supporters Meet Halfway 0
• Jul 28: Onion: Al-Qaeda Would Reduce U.S. Infrastructure to Rubble But It’s Too Late 0
• Jul 27: Gas Tax Expires September 30 0
• Jul 27: Bike League: “Eligibility” for Bike-Ped Isn’t the Same As “Dedicated Funding” 0
• Jul 26: Raquel Nelson Likely to Opt For a New Trial, Her Lawyer Says 0
• Jul 25: 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 22: The Streets and the Courts Failed Raquel Nelson. Can Advocacy Save Her? 0
• Jul 21: Boxer Confirms Bike-Ped Funding, Gang of Six Loves infrastructure Spending 0
• Jul 20: GOP ‘Streamlining’ Plan Threatens to Clear a Path for Highways and Pollution 0
• Jul 19: No Commitment to Bike-Ped Funding in Senate Transpo Bill Outline 0
• Jul 18: Rich People Love Sidewalks, And Other Livability Lessons From USDOT 0
• Jul 15: House Votes to Strip High-Speed Rail Funding 0
• Jul 15: Desperately Seeking: One Senate Transportation Bill, Preferably Bipartisan 0
• Jul 15: Rail-Wary FL Gov. Scott Threw Caution to the Wind in Supporting SunRail 0
• Jul 15: Big Oil Lobbies to Keep Its Tax Breaks Off the Table in Debt Talks 0
• Jul 14: Georgia Mom Convicted of Vehicular Homicide For Crossing Street With Kids 0
• Jul 13: Ford, Verizon Support Distracted-Driver Law — And Its Loophole 0
• Jul 12: Bi-Partisan Political Veterans Team Up to Design a New Gas Tax System 0
• Jul 12: Mica: Why Are the Democrats Picking On Me? 0
• Jul 08: More Responses to Mica Transpo Bill: Lots of People Think It’s a Rotten Idea 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: Mica Transpo Bill Shrinks Spending 33%, Eliminates Bike-Ped Guarantee 0
• Jul 06: Finally: Rustlings of a Reauthorization 0
• Jul 01: The Dangers of Touting the Job-Creation Benefits of Transpo Investment 0
• Jun 29: Stimulus-Backed Programs Struggle to Stay Alive After Funds Run Out 0
• Jun 28: Rumor Mill: House Leadership Hostile to Transpo Reauthorization 0
• Jun 28: USDOT Announces Funding For Transit Projects, Minus ARC Tunnel 0
• Jun 24: Expect Two (Radically Different) Reauthorization Proposals Soon 0
• Jun 24: NJ Rep. Frelinghuysen Goes After HSR Money Destined For His Own State 0
• Jun 23: 25 Senators Demand Robust Transit Funding 0
• Jun 23: Mica Extends Olive Branch to Amtrak, Dems Pound Rail Privatization Plan 0
• Jun 21: Mica Accedes to Dems’ Request to Delay Action on Rail Privatization 0
• Jun 15: House Plan to Privatize Northeast Corridor Retains Public Ownership 0
• Jun 14: How Seniors Get Stuck at Home With No Transit Options 0
• Jun 13: Ray LaHood Wants to Hear From Streetsblog Readers 0
• Jun 13: Obama Administration Pushes for Transit Maintenance 0
• Jun 10: Google Shows That When Transit Agencies Free Their Data, Riders Win 0
• Jun 10: Urban Abandonment: One Way to Cure Congestion 0
• Jun 09: Can High-Speed Rail Reduce Air Travel and Highway Expansion? 0
• Jun 08: GM CEO: “We Ought to Just Slap a Dollar Tax on a Gallon of Gas” 0
• Jun 08: Labor and Environmentalists Unite to Push for Transportation Reforms 0
• Jun 07: Cul-de-Sacs Are Killing Us: Public Safety Lessons From Suburbia 0
• Jun 07: How Car Dependency Turns Suburban Dreams into Foreclosure Nightmares 0
• Jun 03: Video: LaHood Answers Questions About Bike Lanes, Fuel Economy, and HSR 0
• Jun 03: Fmr. Comptroller General: We Can’t Solve Our Problems With Spending Cuts 0
• Jun 03: Highwayman Inhofe Still Wants to Rob Bike/Ped Funding From Transpo Bill 0
• Jun 02: Lawmakers Introduce Reality-Based Plan to Achieve “Freedom From Oil” 0
• Jun 01: What The Debt Ceiling Vote Means For Transportation 0
• May 31: Study: Building Roads to Cure Congestion Is an Exercise in Futility 0
• May 27: Complete Streets Bill Introduced in Senate 0
• May 27: GOP Proposal to Privatize the Northeast Corridor Meets Resistance 0
• May 25: Boxer: Transpo Funding Will Rise in Senate Bill, Bike/Ped Will Be Preserved 0
• May 25: Senate Transportation Bill, MAP-21, Freezes Spending at Current Levels 0
• May 24: Dangerous By Design: How the U.S. Builds Roads That Kill Pedestrians 0
• May 20: Scenes From National Bike to Work Day 0
• May 20: Experts Agree: Six-Year Transportation Bill Won’t Pass This Year 0
• May 19: Good News From the Senate: Transit Operating Assistance and Much More 0
• May 18: AASHTO Approves First New Bicycle Routes in 30 Years 0
• May 18: Ray LaHood Gets Behind 2 Mile Challenge 0
• May 16: Seven Transportation Improvements Everyone Can Agree On 0
• May 13: So Many Subsidies for Big Oil, So Little Political Will to End Them 0
• May 13: Brookings: Transit Access to Jobs Is the Missing Link 0
• May 11: How Would Blumenauer’s New Commuter Benefit Proposal Work? 0
• May 11: Knowing Is Half the Battle: States Lack Data to Make Good Transpo Decisions 0
• May 10: 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 05: 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 04: 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
• Apr 29: How to Get People to Adopt More Climate-Friendly Behaviors 0
• Apr 29: President Obama Expected to Release Proposed Transportation Bill 0
• Apr 28: Philadelphia’s Battle Against Impervious Asphalt 0
• Apr 25: Without Adequate Federal Funding, Will States Raise Their Own Gas Taxes? 0
• Apr 20: 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 19: 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 15: “Path to Prosperity” or “Road to Ruin”? Either Way, the House Says Yes 0
• Apr 15: Senate Introduces a Narrower Bill for Wider Sidewalks 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 01: More From the House Transpo Hearings: The Advocates Edition 0
• Mar 31: Strange Bedfellows Unite for Infrastructure Investment, Financing Tools 0
• Mar 30: Forty Transportation Experts, One Message 0
• Mar 29: Aviation Bill: Foretelling What’s to Come For Surface Transportation? 0
• Mar 25: The Week Ahead: Congress Fights About Budget Cuts and Talks Transpo 0
• Mar 24: The Secrets to Success for Transit-Oriented Development 0
• Mar 22: WSJ: Mica Says Transit Funding Will Stay “About the Same” 0
• Mar 22: House Transportation Committee Rejects Obama’s 2012 Budget Request 0
• Mar 16: Rep. LaTourette Tells Transit Advocates to Ask Congress for What They Need 0
• Mar 15: “Grab a Hold of Your Shorts”: Mica and LaHood Talk Transportation Bill 0
• Mar 14: Will Senate Republicans Send Back Their Own States’ TIGER Money? 0
• Mar 11: Cyclists Descend on Capitol Hill, Ask Lawmakers to Preserve Bike Funding 0
• Mar 11: Boxer Pushes LaHood on Financing for Transportation 0
• Mar 09: LaHood Kicks Off National Bike Summit 0
• Mar 08: State Transpo Officials Push to Toll for Maintenance, Not Just Capacity 0
• Mar 07: Transpo’s Losses in First Round of Spending Cuts Look Worse Than They Are 0
• Mar 04: Who Wants Florida’s $2.4 Billion in High-Speed Rail Funds? 0
• Mar 04: Yes, Transit Belongs in the Highway Trust Fund 0
• Mar 02: House Passes Seventh Extension of Transportation Bill 0
• Mar 02: Mica, LaHood Stump at AASHTO Meeting 0
• Mar 01: GAO: Trucking the Least Efficient Mode of Freight Shipping 0
• Feb 28: 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: Puppies and Peanut Butter: Brookings on State Transpo Mistakes 0
• Feb 22: How Hard Will the Senate Fight Back Against House Spending Cuts? 0
• Feb 18: House to Vote on Deep Cuts to Essential Transportation Programs 0
• Feb 18: In Age of Budget Cuts, Why Are Billions of Federal Rail Dollars Going Unused? 0
• Feb 18: Bike-Ped Funding Survives 583 Amendments 0
• Feb 17: In West Virginia, T&I Committee Kicks Off Field Hearings on Long-term Bill 0
• Feb 14: Obama Admin’s Bold Transpo Plan Leaves Funding Question to Congress 0
• Feb 14: Obama Proposes Infra Bank, Livability Grants, Doubling Transit Funds 0
• Feb 14: Obama Budget Proposes $556B, Long-term Transportation Bill 0
• Feb 11: What to Look For in President Obama’s Budget Request on Monday 0
• Feb 11: Buses vs. Rail: Conservatives Do Battle Over Which Mode is Better 0
• Feb 10: Retired Military Leaders, Corporate CEOs: Driving Alone Aids Terrorists 0
• Feb 09: GOP Moves Ahead With Deep Cuts to Transportation, Housing 0
• Feb 09: House Democrats Begin to Push Back on Draconian GOP Spending Cuts 0
• Feb 08: “Amtrak Joe” Biden, in Philly, Announces a New Plan for High-Speed Rail 0
• Feb 07: Obama Finally Brings the Chamber a Fruitcake (It’s Called Infrastructure) 0
• Feb 04: GOP Targets Transportation, Housing For the Deepest Cuts 0
• Feb 04: AASHTO Suggests Some Tools for Getting Out of the Transpo Funding Mess 0
• Feb 03: Transpo Committee Adds Southern Locations to Field Hearing Schedule 0
• Feb 02: 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
• Jan 31: Biggest TRB Meeting Ever Highlights Visionary Bicycle Research 0
• Jan 28: Transportation Committee Shrinks, EPW Announces New Members 0
• Jan 27: Upstate NY Rep With Portland Roots Charting Middle Ground on Transpo 0
• Jan 27: CA Rep. Hunter: Roads Constitutionally Mandated, Transit Must Pay for Itself 0
• Jan 26: Top DOT Officials Preview the Push for a Transportation Bill 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 24: NTPP: Infrastructure Investment Will Only Boost the Economy If Done Right 0
• Jan 21: Get Rich While Reducing Emissions: Smart Growth Keeps Looking Smarter 0
• Jan 21: Republicans Propose Spending Cuts Targeting Amtrak, Transit Funding 0
• Jan 20: 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 18: Home Builders Urge Fannie, Freddie to Get Behind Mixed-Use Development 0
• Jan 14: Bicycle Advocates Thank LaHood, Talk Strategy 0
• Jan 14: Mica’s Goal: “More Cars Off of the Highway” 0
• Jan 13: Is the Livability Movement Doomed to Homogeneity? The CDC Says No. 0
• Jan 12: 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 10: Household Deficit Reduction: Transit Saves People Almost $10K a Year 0
• Jan 10: We’re Pulling for You, Gabby Giffords 0
• Jan 07: New House Rules Threaten TIGER and Livability Programs 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 1
• 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 Horde Transpo Money and Call It Deficit Reduction 0

• 2010

• Dec 17: House Celebrates Norman Mineta, Ignores His Ideas 0
• Dec 17: Transit Riders Keep Same Tax Benefits As Drivers 0
• Dec 16: CA Mayors Ask Sen. Barbara Boxer for a 21st Century Transpo System 0
• Dec 16: Don’t Waste the Next Two Years: A Blueprint for Reform Under GOP Control 0
• Dec 14: Inside the Bush Tax Cut Compromise is a Gift for Transit Riders 0
• Dec 14: Report: California Leads Nation in Green Transpo Policies 0
• Dec 13: AAA Gets an Earful From Members About Equality For Bikes 0
• Dec 10: Bikes on Bridges: A How-To Guide for Advocates 0
• Dec 09: House Passes Extension of Transportation Reauthorization 0
• Dec 08: Rep. Mica Confirmed as Transportation Committee Chair 0
• Dec 08: House Punts on Budget, Votes on Yearlong Extension Instead 0
• Dec 08: What the GOP Spending Rollback Would Mean for Transportation 0
• Dec 07: Would an Infrastructure Bank Have the Power to Reform Transportation? 0
• Dec 06: Why Reformers Should Care How We Pay for Transportation 0
• Dec 03: Deficit Commission Pushes For Anti-Sprawl Reforms 0
• Dec 02: EPA Recognizes Small Towns and Big Cities For Smart Growth Efforts 0
• Dec 02: Clock Ticks on a Popular Way to Pay for Infrastructure 0
• Nov 30: Rahall 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: GOP Wants to Bring Transpo Policy Back to the 1950s 0
• Nov 18: Bachmann: It’s Not an Earmark if It’s for Highways and Bridges 0
• Nov 18: 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 16: Oberstar’s Final Words of Wisdom 0
• Nov 16: How Pedestrian! The Walking Movement Flexes Its Muscle 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 11: The Power of the Pursestrings Shifts to a Livability Denier in the House 0
• Nov 10: 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 09: Just How Lame Will This Lame Duck Be? 0
• Nov 08: Obama Still Believes in a Bipartisan Push for Infrastructure. Do You? 0
• Nov 05: 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 0
• Nov 03: Oberstar Says Goodbye, Mica Promises Rail and a Long-Term Bill 0
• Nov 03: The Silver Lining: 73 Percent of Transpo Ballot Measures Win 0
• Nov 03: Election Results: GOP Govs Win Big, Dems Take California, Oberstar Ousted 0
• Nov 02: Will Georgia’s Next Governor ‘Unclog Atlanta’? 0
• Nov 02: Election Day Finds Two Livability Champions on the Ropes 0
• Nov 01: Will Florida’s Next Governor Sink the State’s Chances for Rail? 0
• Nov 01: Bike-Ped Funding Dips as Stimulus Spending Slows 0
• Oct 29: Anti-Rail Candidates Take Aim at High Speed Dreams in the Midwest 0
• Oct 28: Governor Moonbeam versus eMeg: What’s at Stake for Transportation? 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 25: Avoiding the Unintended Consequences of Transit-Oriented Development 0
• Oct 22: Even Portland’s Model Transit System Has Labor Disputes 0
• Oct 22: Why Transit Agencies Expand Capacity While They Cut Service 0
• Oct 21: If You Come, They Will Build It: Notes on Livability From Rail~volution 0
• Oct 19: Fighting Freeways: War Stories From Portland 0
• Oct 18: Filling in the Void Left Behind By Sprawl and Abandonment 0
• Oct 15: HUD Announces Winners of $100M in Sustainability Grants 0
• Oct 13: Five Reasons Reformers Are Rallying Behind Obama’s Transpo Push 0
• Oct 11: A National Infrastructure Bank: Can the U.S. Learn From Europe? 0
• Oct 11: Frontrunner for Tenn. Gov Gets Bike Award — But Look Behind the Curtain 0
• Oct 07: How the Information Age Can Make Streets and Transit More Efficient 0
• Oct 06: High-Speed Rail vs. Low-Cost Bus 0
• Oct 05: Former US DOT Bosses Call for Mileage Tax and Congestion Fees 0
• Oct 04: FTA: Transit Maintenance — Not Just Expansion — Will Grow Ridership 0
• Oct 01: State DOTs Make Deeper Bike-Ped Budget Cuts Than Expected 0
• Sep 29: High-Speed Rail: Do We Have the Will? 0
• Sep 28: Obama Admin Will Make Its Transportation Push During the Next Congress 0
• Sep 28: Barbara Boxer Questions Need for Infrastructure Bank 0
• Sep 27: Applications for TIGER II Funding Overwhelm What U.S. DOT Can Dish Out 0
• Sep 20: Will the Next Merit-Based Transpo Program Rock Harder Than TIGER? 0
• Aug 18: Street Safety Projects Threatened as States Give Transpo $ Back to Feds 0
• Aug 06: The Problems With Ports, or Why We Need a National Freight Act 0