Chrysler: Taking Taxpayer Money and Running Away From Cleaner Cars
When Chrysler asked the government for a second round of bailout money in February, it submitted a 177-page restructuring plan that vowed to usher in a new era of fuel-efficient vehicles at the famously gas-chugging automaker.
November 11, 2009
Clinton’s Budget Director Backs Congestion Pricing, VMT Tax
Alice Rivlin, now at the Brookings Institution, is one of the capital's most experienced economic hands.
November 10, 2009
Grassley: ‘Two or Three Other’ Republicans Open to Climate Change Deal
The Senate's propensity for filibusters, delay, and fruitless attempts at bipartisan deal-making is earning it quite the reputation these days. And climate change legislation, with its big-ticket implications for transit and urban development in general, is becoming increasingly caught up in the Senate's peripatetic politics.
November 10, 2009
Why Urban Residents Have a Bone to Pick With Vitter and Bennett
In a development that flew largely under the radar on Thursday, the Senate beat back
an attempt by David Vitter (R-LA) and Bob Bennett (R-UT) to add a
citizenship question to the 2010 U.S. Census, with the goal of no
longer counting non-citizens as part of states' official populations.
November 10, 2009
The Wall Street Transportation Tax: Predictably Unpopular On Wall Street
As Congress mulls over solutions to the nation's transportation funding gap, with an eye to passing new infrastructure legislation to reverse the rising unemployment rate, Rep. Pete DeFazio's (D-OR) proposed tax on oil futures is picking up new fans in high places.
November 9, 2009
New Report Maps the Gap Between Pedestrian Risks and Federal Safety Aid
If
the equivalent of one jumbo jet full of Americans died every month, the
resulting public outcry would be deafening. Or would it?
November 9, 2009
‘The Concrete is Cracking’: Front-Loaded New Transport Bill Gains Steam
With the U.S. unemployment rate hitting 10.2 percent today, its highest level in 26 years, a palpable shift is occurring on Capitol Hill.
November 6, 2009
How Important is a United Front on the Climate Bill?
As fans of clean transportation and sustainable development join the push
for a strong climate change bill to emerge from Congress, it's worth
remembering that not all environmental groups support the approach
congressional Democrats have chosen.
November 5, 2009
Boxer Okays Senate Climate Bill, Without Amendments or GOP
The Senate environment committee approved its climate change bill today on an 11-1 vote, shrugging off a boycott by all of the panel's Republicans but missing out on the chance to consider amendments to the lengthy legislation.
November 5, 2009
Amtrak, Virginia Railway Express, and the Future of Privately Run Transit
Virginia Railway Express (VRE), the commuter network that links northwest Virginia to Washington D.C., today refused
a challenge by Amtrak to its decision to switch operating providers to
the U.S. arm of Keolis, a private French transit company.
November 4, 2009