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Transportation Funding

November 2009
Thu 19: Pelosi: Passing a Wall Street Transport Tax Would Require Overseas Buy-in 0
Thu 19: ‘This Needs Attention’: Senators Seek Shot in the Arm on Transportation 1
Mon 9: The Wall Street Transportation Tax: Predictably Unpopular On Wall Street 1
Fri 6: At CNU, Former Rep of Texas Legislature says "No Road Pays for Itself" 3
Thu 5: CNU Transportation Project Raises Bar on Planning for Livable Cities 1
Thu 5: How Important is a United Front on the Climate Bill? 1
Tue 3: MTA Budget Shortfall Could Seriously Impact Muni Service 2
October 2009
Tue 20: Budget Update Taken Off Agenda for Today's MTA Board Meeting 8
Fri 9: Bridging the Local-National Message Divide: The Climate Bill is the Answer 0
Fri 9: Bush DOT Chief Urges More Transport Tech Funding 2
Tue 6: Supes Approve $30 Million Contract for Muni Train Control System 19
Mon 5: Congress’ Transport Impasse Hits States — and Not Just Their Road Funds 0
Fri 2: Killing the Myth of the ‘More Shovel-Ready’ Road Stimulus, Part II 0
Thu 1: GOP Blocks Plan to Use Bailout Fund to Preserve $8.7B in Transport Money 0
September 2009
Fri 25: AC Transit GM Proposes Diverting BRT Funds For Operational Shortfall 0
Mon 14: MTA to Begin Repairing Fleet of Damaged LRVs 6
Wed 9: SamTrans to Raise Fares and Cut Nearly All Express Routes 4
Fri 4: Civil Rights Complaint Filed Against BART Over Oak Airport Connector 3
August 2009
Mon 31: Cable Cars a Popular Tourist Draw But How Should We Pay for Them? 25
Thu 27: High Speed Rail Authority Says Ruling Won't Affect Timeline or Funding 9
Mon 17: Tracking Transport Subsidies: As Tough as Following the Stimulus Money 0
Mon 17: Could Ending the ‘War on Drugs’ Help Ease Urban Budget Crises? 0
Tue 4: Following ‘Cash for Clunkers’ with ‘Riches for Rail’ 1
July 2009
Thu 30: McCain & Coburn: Let’s Make Roads Safer — by Slashing Safety Money 2
Thu 23: Lawmakers Pitch Transport Funding Ideas, From VMT to Freight Taxes 0
Wed 22: Local Advocates Mourn "Death of Transit" as Part of National Campaign 7
Wed 22: Advocating for a Transpo Bill That Keeps Transit Riders Moving 0
Wed 22: Cardin & Carper Bullish on Transit’s Prospects in Senate Climate Bill 0
Tue 14: MTA Board Discusses Revenue Options to Cover $1 Billion Five-Year Shortfall 7
Mon 13: Obama Talks Urban Policy as LaHood Seeks More Urban Transpo Money 0
Fri 10: Bachmann Says Walking and Biking Have Nothing to Do With Public Health 4
Thu 9: Top 20 Metro Areas Get 28% of Road Stimulus, 61% of Transit Stimulus 0
Wed 8: SF Supes Committee Supports GG Park Metering and Streetscape Bond 3
Wed 8: SFO Commission Calls BART Surcharge for SFO Workers "Unconscionable" 7
Tue 7: Senate Starts Climate Push With Nods to Jobs, Energy, and Transportation 0
Mon 6: Streetscast: An Interview with MTA Chair Tom Nolan 10
Thu 2: CA Transit Operators Win in Court, But Face Challenge by Governor 3
June 2009
Fri 26: How Much Operating Aid is Your Local Transit Agency Getting? 0
Fri 26: The Wall Street Tax Shelter That Crashed Your Local Transit Agency 0
Thu 25: Money or Nothing: Schwarzenegger Joins Call for Infrastructure Investment 1
Thu 25: Boxer and Inhofe Agree: Transportation Policy Reform Can Wait 2
Tue 23: STAA Tuned: Transpo Bill Leaves Funding Question Hanging 0
Thu 18: BART Sees Huge Revenue Decline As Ridership and Sales Taxes Plummet 17
Wed 17: Senator Boxer Likes LaHood's 18-Month Highway Trust Extension Plan 1
Wed 17: LaHood Asks for 18-Month Extension of Four-Year-Old Transpo Law 0
Tue 16: BART Unions Accuse Management of Contract Delays and Costly Perks 5
Tue 16: $388 Million Streetscape Measure Could Deliver Complete Streets -- or Not 3
Fri 12: Congress Agrees to Keep Transit Operating Aid in War Bill 1
Tue 9: Lawmakers Push for Federal Help With Transit Operating: Read the Letter 0
Thu 4: Transit Planners to Congress: Please Figure Out How to Fund Us 0
Wed 3: Supervisor Chiu Urges MTC to Invest in Transit Over Freeway Expansion 10
Tue 2: MTA Director Heinicke Proposes Sponsorship of Street, Cable Cars 10
Mon 1: Supervisor Mar Holds Better Streets Town Hall Meeting in the Richmond 5
May 2009
Fri 29: Newsom Opposed to Sunday Parking Enforcement, Study or No 13
Fri 22: Recovery.org Tracks The Stimulus Faster Than The Guys Spending It 0
Fri 15: Where's Gavin? Likely Campaigning in an Armored SUV 4
Fri 15: Governor Schwarzenegger Finds Another Way to Rob Transit 0
Fri 8: Eyes on the Street: It's Beginning to Look Like... a Livable Street! 3
Fri 8: Advocates, Unions Call for BRT Connector Service to Oakland Airport 10
Fri 8: BART Directors Consider Design Concepts for New Rail Cars 2
Wed 6: Fear Growing Senator Boxer Won't Deliver Progressive Transportation Act 5
Fri 1: MTA Board Approves Budget But Caves on Stronger Parking Enforcement 25
April 2009
Fri 24: Future of the 26-Valencia Line Uncertain 25
Thu 23: Advocates File Appeal in MTC Discrimination Case 0
Thu 23: MTC Approves Sweeping Regional Plan, Debates New Toll Lanes 3
Wed 22: Gav For Guv Short On Transportation Essentials 8
Mon 13: California Cities Need A Predictable Fund For Transit Operations 7
Fri 10: Streetscast: An Interview with MTA Chief Nat Ford, Part 1 7
Thu 9: Supervisor Dufty Blasts SFPD Over MTA Work Orders 8
Wed 8: MTC to Award $1.3 Million for Bay Bridge West Span Bike Path Study 22
Wed 8: MTA Board Tweaks Budget Proposal Following First Public Hearing 2
Tue 7: MTA Budget Hearing Today 0
Fri 3: MTA Releases Revised Budget Proposal, List of Muni Service Cuts 19
Thu 2: News From New York: The ABC's of Trial Plazas and Complete Streets 8
Thu 2: Despite Setback, Advocates Claim Partial Win in MTC Discrimination Suit 3
March 2009
Tue 31: Happy Belated Transportation Freedom Day, San Francisco! 0
Mon 30: Young Urbanists Present: Blogging in the City with Streetsblog, Mission Loc@l and WhatImSeeing 0
Thu 26: Regional Transportation Funding Problems Keep Getting Bigger 5
Mon 9: Do We Have to Wait for the Next Mayor for a Car-free Market Street? 10
Mon 2: A Very Astute Critique of Highways by an Editor of The Weekly Standard 2
February 2009
Wed 25: Despite Outcry, MTC Board Approves OAK Connector Funds 6
Tue 24: Advocates Upset Stim Money Could Still Fund Oakland Airport Connector 3
Mon 23: What's Next for the TEP? 16
Fri 20: Advocates Launch Effort to Restore State Transit Funding 0
Wed 18: Obama Calls For Better Regional Planning Measures in TEA Reauthorization 1
Fri 13: California Transit Association: "Armageddon Scenario Has Arrived" 0
Thu 12: Short Stimulus Package Timeline Will Compel Tough Regional Choices 5
Fri 6: The Great Streets Campaign Needs a Leader 6
Thu 5: San Francisco Increasingly Dangerous for Pedestrians 17
Tue 3: It Gets Worse: Boxer/Inhofe to Request $50B More for Highways 2
Tue 3: Will Senator Boxer Give in to Global-Warming-a-Hoax Inhofe on Stimulus? 2
Mon 2: Schumer Proposes $6.5B More for Transit in Senate Stim Bill 0
January 2009
Fri 30: Concrete Giveaway: Free and Exclusive Parking on the Public Street 25
Fri 30: State Legislators Urge Pelosi To Put More Transit Money in Stimulus 3
Wed 28: Paradise LOSt (Part III): California's Revolutionary Plan to Overhaul Transportation Analysis 3
Wed 28: Nancy Pelosi's Infrastructure Choices 5
Tue 27: Paradise LOSt (Part II): Turning Automobility on Its Head 3
Tue 27: Two Action Alerts to Improve Stimulus Package for Transit Today 6
Mon 26: Have Your Say on How to Spend $226 Billion Over the Next 25 Years 1
Wed 14: State Democrats Unveil Green Economic Stimulus Plan for California 1
Mon 12: Streetscast: An Interview with David Chiu 3
Fri 9: MTA's Call to Climate Action or Just Another Press Release? 5
Wed 7: Schwarzenegger Long on Fiscal Stimulus Rhetoric, Short on Transit Specifics 1