Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Transportation for America

House Transportation Bill: What’s at Stake for the Bay Area

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 15, 2012 | No Comments

Reliable transit and safer streets in San Francisco and the Bay Area could be crippled by what U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood has called “the worst transportation bill [he’s] ever seen” making its way through the U.S. House of Representatives. As Streetsblog Capitol Hill has been reporting, H.R. 7, the federal transportation bill being pushed by House […]

Mica Transpo Bill Would Have Dire Impact on California Transit

By Bryan Goebel | Jul 11, 2011 | 1 Comment

Public transit programs in California could take a $468 million annual hit under the proposed transportation bill unveiled last week by Rep. John Mica (R-FL). The Mica plan would also potentially result in the loss of 17,565 annual jobs, according to an analysis [pdf] by Transportation for America. Overall, T4A predicts the scaled-down bill would […]

Dangerous Street Designs Threaten Oakland’s Communities of Color, Seniors

By Ruth Miller | May 26, 2011 | 5 Comments

Oakland's pedestrian fatalities are centered in neighborhoods of color, around freeways and arterials designed to quickly move cars at the cost of safety.

National Transit Funding Report Highlights Local Transit Woes

By Matthew Roth | Aug 18, 2009 | 1 Comment

ATU Local 192 representative Anthony Rogers, who has been an AC Transit bus driver for nearly 20 years. Photo: Matthew Roth Genesis, a local affiliate of the Gamaliel Foundation, joined with representatives from the national Transportation Equity Network (TEN), AC Transit, and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 192 today to call on Congress to act to […]

Transportation for American Releases Blueprint for Transportation Reform

By Sarah Goodyear | May 11, 2009 | No Comments

Today Transportation for America is releasing a 100-page document called "The Route to Reform," in which they outline policy recommendations related to the upcoming reauthorization of federal transportation funding legislation (download the executive summary here or the full report here). From the executive summary: The next transportation program must set about the urgent task of […]

Fear Growing Senator Boxer Won’t Deliver Progressive Transportation Act

By Matthew Roth | May 6, 2009 | 5 Comments

The "High Five" in Dallas, via jmmadrid on Flickr California Senator Barbara Boxer will be at the center of a battle over whether or not the reauthorization of the transportation bill will address the global warming impacts of transportation, given her Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee is responsible for writing much of the […]

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