From Transportation For America: Friday was a shocking day in the House of Representatives. A House committee majority went ahead with their plan to punish everyone who rides public transportation, as well as jeopardizing thousands of jobs in the public transit, construction and manufacturing industries. In doing this, House leadership and this committee ignored broad, [...]
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2012America 2050: House Wages War on Transit
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012From America 2050: Last week, more than two years after the nation’s last five-year surface transportation law expired, the House of Representatives introduced its proposed legislation for rewriting the nation’s transportation laws. And boy, it is a doozy. Facing severely reduced gasoline tax receipts, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has proposed to cut many [...]
View this complete post...Midway, WA: Cracked Pavement on Interstate-5
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012One of our top complaints? Interstate 5 is terrible! We know! We’re repairing as we get money, it one panel as a time. Interstate 5 is the most important highway in the state. It’s part of an interstate system that connects Mexico to Canada and is our economic lifeline. The roadway, designed in the 60′s [...]
View this complete post...Guest on The Infra Blog: Galina Tachieva, Partner, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, & Author, The Sprawl Repair Manual
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012Galina Tachieva is an expert on sustainable planning, urban redevelopment, sprawl repair, and form-based codes. As a partner and Director of Town Planning at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, Architects and Town Planners (DPZ), Tachieva directs and manages the design and implementation of projects in the US and around the world. DPZ, a leader in the [...]
View this complete post...Why Pleas to Increase Infrastructure Funding Fall on Deaf Ears
Monday, February 6th, 2012Innovation NewsBriefs Vol. 23, No. 5 Letting the nation’s roads and bridges deteriorate may worsen traffic congestion and add to our commuting woes, but when water and sewer systems begin to fail our very civilization is at risk. That is the message of a recent story in The Washington Post drawing attention to the alarming [...]
View this complete post...House to Change “Mass Transit” Program to “Alternative Transportation” Program
Friday, February 3rd, 2012Transportation Issues Daily The House Transportation multi-year transportation proposal (“American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Financing Act of 2012”) maintains the roughly 80/20 split of funding to highways/transit. But it contains several changes to the transit section: Mass Transit Account to be renamed Alternative Transportation Account Mass Transit Account funding for 2012 to be transferred to [...]
View this complete post...AASHTO Executive Director John Horsley on the House Transportation Bill
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012AASHTO Executive Director John Horsley today issued this on-camera statement upon the release by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee of the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act. Mr. Horsley also issued a written statement which is available on the AASHTO homepage at http://www.transportation.org/ – AASHTOVideo on YouTube
View this complete post...Active Transportation Beyond Urban Centers: Walking and Bicycling in Small Towns and Rural America
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY
Some commentators and decision-makers have long assumed that biking and walking are strictly a “big city” phenomenon, and that rural America can’t benefit substantially from bicycling and pedestrian infrastructure. Previous research has found that rural Americans walk and bicycle at 58 percent of the rate that urban Americans do. However, the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) tell a different story.
Congestion in America A Growing Challenge to U.S. Energy Security
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012SECURING AMERICA’S FUTURE ENERGY
In February 2011, the Energy Security Leadership Council released a report entitled Transportation Policies for America’s Future. The report examined the challenges facing the U.S. transportation system in the 21st century and provided a vision and accompanying recommendations for a more efficient, analytically thorough, and market-driven approach to national transportation policy. Most importantly, it emphasized the crucial interaction between transportation policy decisions and the energy security challenge posed by U.S. oil dependence.
2012 Pocket Guide to Transportation
Monday, January 30th, 2012U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration produces the Pocket Guide to Transportation as a compact resource that provides snapshots of the U.S. transportation system and highlights major transportation trends.
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