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• 2009

• Nov 06: Senate’s Next Climate Hearing to Feature Big Oil-Backed Critics 0
• Nov 06: ‘The Concrete is Cracking’: Front-Loaded New Transport Bill Gains Steam 3
• Nov 06: Distracted Driving Debate Continues in Congress as Consensus Looks Elusive 1
• Nov 06: Today’s Headlines 0
• Nov 05: How Important is a United Front on the Climate Bill? 0
• Nov 05: What Does Virginia’s New Governor Owe the State on Transportation? 0
• Nov 05: Boxer Okays Senate Climate Bill, Without Amendments or GOP 2
• Nov 05: Today’s Headlines 2
• Nov 04: Amtrak, Virginia Railway Express, and the Future of Privately Run Transit 0
• Nov 04: Congress Set to Double the Size of Sprawl-Centric Home Buyer’s Tax Credit 0
• Nov 04: Kerry: There’s a Narrow Window For GOP Cooperation on Pricing Pollution 1
• Nov 04: Today’s Headlines 1
• Nov 03: Senate Democrats Poke Holes in GOP’s Climate Change ‘Boycott’ 0
• Nov 03: Buffett’s Bet on Burlington: What Does it Mean for Transport and Energy? 0
• Nov 03: The Senate Climate Bill Reaches a First Milestone Today — Maybe 1
• Nov 03: Today’s Headlines 0
• Nov 02: Wall Street’s Infrastructure Tax Shelter Hits Transit — and the Feds Too 0
• Nov 02: Obama Calls For ‘More Creative’ Ways to Pay For Infrastructure 1
• Nov 02: To Limit Distracted Driving, Congress Leans Toward a Carrot-Stick Combo 0
• Nov 02: Today’s Headlines 2
• Oct 30: Today’s Headlines 0
• Oct 29: The New Curveball: A $150 Billion Transportation Down Payment 0
• Oct 29: Inhofe Blasts Transport Bill Inaction That Comes From His Own Party 1
• Oct 29: Trucking Industry Likes Higher Fuel Prices — When They Help Truckers 1
• Oct 29: A Republican Returns to Congress With A Map to Transportation Reform 0
• Oct 29: Today’s Headlines 0
• Oct 28: Senior Dems Release New Distracted Driving Bill as LaHood Testifies 1
• Oct 28: Transportation Policy Becomes the Proverbial Tree Falling in the Forest 1
• Oct 28: Philly Mayor Tells Senate: Climate Bill Can Help Make Cities Greener 1
• Oct 28: Today’s Headlines 0
• Oct 27: Transport Policy Update: Senate to Pass 6-Month Extension This Week 0
• Oct 27: At Senate Climate Hearings, Lots of Transport Talk and All Eyes on Baucus 0
• Oct 27: Electric Cars Got a Bigger U.S. Bet in 6 Months Than Transit Gets All Year 2
• Oct 27: Today’s Headlines 0
• Oct 26: How Bus Transit Can Help the Auto Industry 3
• Oct 26: GOP Senators Protest Evaluating the Climate Impacts of Transport Projects 0
• Oct 26: Senate Climate Bill Triples the House’s Investments in Clean Transport 0
• Oct 26: Today’s Headlines 0
• Oct 23: Senate Signals 6-Month Delay for Transport Bill — But Will the House Agree? 0
• Oct 23: Obama: Climate Pessimism More Dangerous Than Climate Deniers 13
• Oct 23: Deeds Wants More Money for Transportation — But Not From a Climate Bill? 0
• Oct 23: Today’s Headlines 1
• Oct 22: Transit Creates As Many Jobs As Roads — But it Could Do Even Better 0
• Oct 22: The ‘Infrastructure Condo’ That Could Help Make High-Speed Rail Happen 3
• Oct 22: Seeking Stimulus Money For Bike Sharing, D.C. Looks Beyond Cutting CO2 6
• Oct 22: Today’s Headlines 0
• Oct 21: Takeaway From Today’s EPA Hearing: Fuel Efficiency is a Money-Maker 0
• Oct 21: GOPers Re-Name the Climate Bill Again: Now It’s a ‘Gas Tax’! 1
• Oct 21: The Top 10 States for Energy Efficiency — And Some Surprising Achievers 0
• Oct 21: Today’s Headlines 0
• Oct 20: Think Tank Responds to Report on Hidden Costs of Fossil Fuels: Yawn 1
• Oct 20: 16 Cities That Are Leading the Way in the Climate Change Fight 0
• Oct 20: How the $8.7 Billion Transportation Contracting Gap is Hitting Your State 0
• Oct 20: The Political Climate That Makes Transportation Reform Run 1
• Oct 20: Today’s Headlines 0
• Oct 19: New Study Shows $56 Billion in Hidden Health Damage from Autos 1
• Oct 19: Has Kentucky’s ‘Zombie Highway’ Met its Demise? 0
• Oct 19: Today’s Headlines 0
• Oct 16: Transportation Allowances in the Climate Bill: A Tale of Two Modes 0
• Oct 16: Transport Debate Still Stalled As Oberstar Decries ‘Lack of Political Will’ 0
• Oct 16: Today’s Headlines 0
• Oct 15: Obama Adviser Proves it: Transportation Reform is Health Reform 1
• Oct 15: Senior Dem Senator to Offer Competing Plan to Limit Distracted Driving 0
• Oct 15: Construction Industry and Green Group Join Hands on Clean Diesel 0
• Oct 15: House GOPer Goes ‘All Aboard for Gun Rights on Amtrak’ 4
• Oct 15: The Oversight Gap in Team Obama’s High-Speed Rail Plan 0
• Oct 15: Today’s Headlines 0
• Oct 14: New Orleans GOPer Still Sore at Jindal For Saying No to High-Speed Rail 4
• Oct 14: Electrification in the Climate Bill: Thinking Bigger Than a Car 0
• Oct 14: What Washington Can Do For — And Alongside — Metro Area Planners 0
• Oct 14: Today’s Headlines 0
• Oct 13: Six States Seek Stimulus Aid to Add Rail to Congestion-Plagued I-81 3
• Oct 13: Senior House GOPer: We Shouldn’t Force Amtrak to Allow Guns on Board 1
• Oct 13: Obama Ally Breaks With White House on Timing of New Transport Bill 1
• Oct 13: Today’s Headlines 0
• Oct 12: Today’s Headlines 0
• Oct 09: How Congress Can Help Create Suburbia 2.0 1
• Oct 09: Senate Climate Bill Delayed Yet Again As Obama Takes Nobel 1
• Oct 09: Inside the Rail Worker Disability Program That Never Says ‘No’ 1
• Oct 09: Today’s Headlines 1
• Oct 08: When $1 Billion Doesn’t Buy What it Used To — And When it Does 1
• Oct 08: Two More Senate Dems Back Plan to Devote Climate Money to Transit 1
• Oct 08: Streetsblog Q&A: Bush DOT Chief Backs Transport Tech Funding 0
• Oct 08: Streetsblog Q&A: Bush DOT Chief Endorses National Transport Goals 0
• Oct 08: Today’s Headlines 0
• Oct 07: SF, NYC, and DC Sign Deals to Upgrade Transit Technology 0
• Oct 07: Obama’s Engaged With Transit More in 9 Months than Bush Did in 8 Years 1
• Oct 07: Team Obama Adviser: Here’s How to Make Sustainability Mainstream 1
• Oct 07: Today’s Headlines 0
• Oct 06: $8B for High-Speed Rail, $1.5B in Transport Stimulus Coming This Winter 0
• Oct 06: White House Urban Affairs Chief: Promising Words But Little Hint of a Plan 0
• Oct 06: Is a Bigger Transportation Bill — This Year — Back on the Table? 1
• Oct 06: Today’s Headlines 0
• Oct 05: LaHood’s Twelve-Word Definition of ‘Livability’ 0
• Oct 05: The Dirty Secret of Coal Ash: It’s in Our Roads 0
• Oct 05: Congress’ Transport Impasse Hits States — and Not Just Their Road Funds 1
• Oct 05: Today’s Headlines 0
• Oct 02: Killing the Myth of the ‘More Shovel-Ready’ Road Stimulus, Part II 2
• Oct 02: Spending Transportation Stimulus Money Fast vs. Spending it Well 0
• Oct 02: CA Guv Hopeful: Let’s Not Extend Parking Meter Hours in a Recession 0
• Oct 02: Today’s Headlines 0
• Oct 01: The Good Problem With Housing Near Transit: It’s Almost Too Popular 2
• Oct 01: Obama Bans Texting While Driving for Guv Workers — And There’s More 1
• Oct 01: GOP Blocks Plan to Use Bailout Fund to Preserve $8.7B in Transport Money 0
• Oct 01: Today’s Headlines 0
• Sep 30: Senate Passes One-Month Extension of Transport Law … For Now 0
• Sep 30: The ‘Elitism’ Trap Migrates From Transport Reform to Climate Change 0
• Sep 30: Senate Climate Bill Released With Much Fanfare, Little Focus on Transport 2
• Sep 30: U.S. DOT’s Distracted Driving Summit: Follow it Live 0
• Sep 30: Today’s Headlines 0
• Sep 29: Could Congress Let States (Start to) Lose $8.7 Billion in Road Money? 0
• Sep 29: Senate Climate Bill Leaks: The Good News and Bad News for Transport 0
• Sep 29: New Report: Feds Subsidizing Parking Six Times as Much as Transit 1
• Sep 29: Today’s Headlines 1
• Sep 25: Today’s Headlines 0
• Sep 24: Obama Chooses Trucking Industry Lobbyist to Regulate Truckers 2
• Sep 24: LaHood Praises NYC But Shrugs at Transport Reform to Empower Cities 0
• Sep 24: Deja Vu: Congress Could Put Off Deal on Transport Bill Until Next Month 1
• Sep 24: Today’s Headlines 0
• Sep 23: Streetsblog Capitol Hill Q&A With Leon Krier 3
• Sep 23: House Voting Today on Transport Law Extension — Or Not? 2
• Sep 23: Today’s Headlines 0
• Sep 22: Business Lobby to Senate: No, Stimulus Won’t Do Enough for Transport 0
• Sep 22: New Report: 10% Transit Growth Would Help Meet House Climate Target 1
• Sep 22: Oberstar’s 3-Month Transport Bill Extension Heading to House Floor 0
• Sep 22: Today’s Headlines 0
• Sep 21: Fly on the Wall Alert: Obama, LaHood, and Tom Friedman Tee Off 2
• Sep 21: Feds Could Soon End Pro-Transit Privatization Rule — in One State Only 4
• Sep 21: Obama Administration Sends $100M in Stimulus Aid to 43 Transit Agencies 6
• Sep 21: Bloomberg and Dems Blast Congressional Plan to Let Guns on Amtrak 1
• Sep 21: Today’s Headlines 0
• Sep 18: Boxer Reminds Metrolink: Train Crew Members Shouldn’t Ride Solo 1
• Sep 18: Joel Kotkin on Smart Growth: The Streetsblog Re-mix 2
• Sep 18: High-Speed Rail Routes and the Looming Choice Among ‘Megaregions’ 1
• Sep 18: Today’s Headlines 0
• Sep 17: Pro-Gun Group: Senator Shows ‘Bigotry’ by Opposing Firearms on Amtrak 6
• Sep 17: Oberstar to Back 3-Month Delay in Transport Bill As Soon As Next Week 0
• Sep 17: Pro-Tea Party Republican’s Angry Letter to D.C. Metro: Read it in Full 10
• Sep 17: Warner Scores a (Small) Win for White House’s Transportation Agenda 0
• Sep 17: Today’s Headlines 0
• Sep 16: Conservatives: If We Can’t Kill Off the U.S. DOT, Let’s ‘Fix’ It! 3
• Sep 16: Klobuchar & Webb: Dems’ Unlikely Opponents of Bike-Ped Investment 4
• Sep 16: New Investigation Finds 2,100 Transport Lobbyists Working the System 0
• Sep 16: Today’s Headlines 0
• Sep 15: More on McCain’s Anti-Transit and Coburn’s Anti-Bike Amendments 2
• Sep 15: The New White House Fuel Efficiency Rule: Count the Loopholes 2
• Sep 15: White House Releases Fuel Efficiency Rules — Will the Loophole Make it in? 1
• Sep 15: Today’s Headlines 0
• Sep 14: California County Now Offers Ride Insurance to Car-Free Commuters 2
• Sep 14: Planetizen Unveils Its Top 100 Urban Thinkers 0
• Sep 14: Oberstar Stands Firm on Transportation Bill, Gets Industry Backup 0
• Sep 14: McCain’s Transit Hit List: Get the Details 21
• Sep 14: Today’s Headlines 1
• Sep 11: Stimulus Spotlight: Delaware Town Boosts Bike-Ped Access to Bus Stop 0
• Sep 11: Department of Energy Gets Basic Math Wrong in its Rail Analysis 5
• Sep 11: White House Tells Senate: Grants No Substitute For Infrastructure Bank 0
• Sep 11: Today’s Headlines 0
• Sep 10: The ‘Movie Ticket’ Theory of Transportation Pricing 0
• Sep 10: Did Oberstar Admit There Won’t Be a Transportation Bill This Year? 0
• Sep 10: Consensus on National Transport Goals Still Eludes Industry Pros 0
• Sep 10: Today’s Headlines 0
• Sep 09: Dodd Stays at Helm of Transit Panel — But at a Cost to Climate Bill? 0
• Sep 09: How Much Would Most People Pay For a Shorter Commute? 5
• Sep 09: Was the Auto Industry Bailout Legal? It’s Debatable, Oversight Panel Says 0
• Sep 09: Today’s Headlines 0
• Sep 08: How Many Trips Are ‘Captured’ By More Diverse Urban Land Use? 0
• Sep 08: D-Day Approaches for Detroit Transit Riders 0
• Sep 08: Compromise or Concession: Congress Faces Tough Transport Choices 0
• Sep 08: Today’s Headlines 0
• Sep 04: Happy Labor Day Weekend 0
• Sep 04: GOP Guv Hopeful Hit Motorcyclist With His BMW But Wasn’t Ticketed 1
• Sep 04: LaHood on Transport: ‘We Don’t Want to Pit One Mode … Against Another’ 2
• Sep 04: Today’s Headlines 0
• Sep 03: Mmmm, This ‘Pork’ Sounds Tasty: Senators Serve Up Transit Aid 2
• Sep 03: Feds Still Forcing Transit Agencies to Bow to Private Charter Buses 2
• Sep 03: Biden on Stimulus Aid to Cities: ‘We’re Trying … It’s Imperfect’ 1
• Sep 03: Today’s Headlines 0
• Sep 02: Killing the Myth of the ‘More Shovel-Ready’ Road Stimulus 0
• Sep 02: U.S. DOT to Stop Rewarding Transit Projects That Use Private Contracts 0
• Sep 02: Florida Guv, a Fair-Weather Friend of Rail, Backs Out of Climate Fight 0
• Sep 02: Today’s Headlines 0
• Sep 01: White House Hails Kansas City’s Stimulus-Backed ‘Green Impact Zone’ 0
• Sep 01: ‘Clunkers’ Consequences: GM Sales Down, Ford Gas-Guzzlers Up 0
• Sep 01: EPA to Declare CO2 a Pollutant, Release Final Fuel-Efficiency Rules 1
• Sep 01: New Poll: Public Supports Congestion Tolling Over Gas Tax Hike by 2 to 1 3
• Sep 01: Today’s Headlines 0
• Aug 31: Senate Climate Bill Delayed for Second Time 0
• Aug 31: EPA Chief Urges a More Urban Environmentalism to Fight Climate Change 0
• Aug 31: Senator Dukakis? What Kennedy’s Loss Could Mean for Transport Policy 1
• Aug 31: Today’s Headlines 0
• Aug 21: Few Cries From Congress for a Second Resurrection of “Cash for Clunkers” 0
• Aug 21: Know Your Transportation Lobbyists: The American Trucking Association 0
• Aug 21: D.C. City Government Considers “Cash for Close-in Urban Living” 0
• Aug 21: Today’s Headlines 0
• Aug 20: Jindal’s Not Alone: Guvs Who Shunned Stimulus Warm to High-Speed Rail 6
• Aug 20: Stimulus Spotlight: Oregon’s Solar Highway 6
• Aug 20: As “Cash for Clunkers” Sputters, a Privately Funded Spinoff Picks Up 0
• Aug 20: Today’s Headlines 0
• Aug 19: Climate Change and Health Care: A Tale of Two Polls Comments Off
• Aug 19: “Cash for Clunkers” Coming to a Close? 0
• Aug 19: Crunching June Stimulus Numbers: Roads Create Pricier Jobs Than Transit 0
• Aug 19: Carper: Climate Bill Must Focus on Transport, Not Just Power Plants 0
• Aug 19: Today’s Headlines 0
• Aug 18: Know Your Transportation Lobbyists: Transit Beats Roads — Sort Of 1
• Aug 18: Behind the ‘Bridge in a Backpack’ That Could Go National 0
• Aug 18: Transit Cuts Report Underscores Cities’ Congressional Influence Gap 0
• Aug 18: Today’s Headlines 0
• Aug 17: Tracking Transport Subsidies: As Tough as Following the Stimulus Money 0
• Aug 17: Could Ending the ‘War on Drugs’ Help Ease Urban Budget Crises? 1
• Aug 17: Today’s Headlines 0
• Aug 14: Oil Industry Tears Page from Health Care Playbook to Battle Climate Bill 1
• Aug 14: Report: Boxer ‘Sympathetic to’ Backers of More Climate Money for Transit 2
• Aug 14: Could Electric-Car Tax Credits Become the Next “Cash for Clunkers”? 0
• Aug 14: Today’s Headlines 0
• Aug 13: Midwest High-Speed Rail Group Starts Lobby Push for House’s $4B Bill 2
• Aug 13: Distracted Driving Laws Lack Teeth in Some States 1
• Aug 13: Obama Administration Touts Nation’s First All-Electronic Toll Road in N.C. 2
• Aug 13: Today’s Headlines 0
• Aug 12: A Better — and Cooler — Version of “Cash for Clunkers” 0
• Aug 12: Electric Cars and the Future of the Gas Tax 4
• Aug 12: Transport Construction Industry Mobilizes for Oberstar’s Bill 1
• Aug 12: Today’s Headlines 1
• Aug 11: A Progress Report on State-Level Oil Dependence 1
• Aug 11: GM Claims a 230 MPG Volt — Is it For Real? 41
• Aug 11: Senate’s New DOT Spending Bill Eases One Transit Funding Barrier 1
• Aug 11: Today’s Headlines 0
• Aug 10: 30 House Dems Back Transportation Tax on Wall Street Oil Speculators 0
• Aug 10: Citigroup’s “Cash for Clunkers” Contract Worth $7.7 Million 0
• Aug 10: The Peculiar Federalism of Transit Safety: No National Standards Exist 2
• Aug 10: Today’s Headlines 0
• Aug 07: New ‘Clunkers’ Analysis: Trucks, SUVs More Popular Than Suggested 5
• Aug 07: Electrified Transportation’s Big Week in Washington 1
• Aug 07: The Senate’s ‘Clunkers’ Vote: Who Crossed Party Lines? (UPDATED) 1
• Aug 07: Today’s Headlines 0
• Aug 06: Senators Propose $4 Billion for Transit-Oriented Development Grants 1
• Aug 06: Audit Finds U.S. DOT’s Transit Record-Keeping ‘Unreliable,’ ‘Inaccurate’ 0
• Aug 06: PBS NewsHour Takes on Alabama’s “Zombie Highway” 0
• Aug 06: Transit Union Apologizes to Senate After Campaign-Finance Flap 2
• Aug 06: Today’s Headlines 0
• Aug 05: The Perils of Taking Transit Advice From an Alabama Senator 2
• Aug 05: Portland’s Transport Research Guru Headed to Obama Administration 1
• Aug 05: Lobby Firm Behind Climate Forgeries Helped Kill Higher CAFE Standards 0
• Aug 05: Today’s Headlines 1
• Aug 04: AP: Obama Administration Won’t Release Full Data on ‘Cash for Clunkers’ 2
• Aug 04: Following ‘Cash for Clunkers’ with ‘Riches for Rail’ 0
• Aug 04: “Build America Bonds” Having a Big Week — Is the Transport Bill Next? 0
• Aug 04: LaHood to Convene Texting-While-Driving Summit 0
• Aug 04: Today’s Headlines 0
• Aug 03: Letting Highway Trust Fund Earn Interest: How Much Would it Help? 3
• Aug 03: Separating Myth from Fact on “Cash for Clunkers” 3
• Aug 03: How — and When — Can D.C. Help Local Transport Reform Happen? 0
• Aug 03: Bailout Recipient Citigroup Gets Contract to Run ‘Cash for Clunkers’ 0
• Aug 03: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jul 31: Road Stimulus Money: Half Spent on Repaving, 17% on Widening 0
• Jul 31: What Wasn’t in This Week’s Highway Trust Fund Patch 0
• Jul 31: House Quickly Sends $2 Billion More to ‘Cash for Clunkers’ 2
• Jul 31: ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Out of Cash — But Not Quite Finished 2
• Jul 31: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jul 30: An Urban Planning Tale That Writes Itself 0
• Jul 30: A Suggestion for Today’s ‘Beer Summit’ 0
• Jul 30: McCain & Coburn: Let’s Make Roads Safer — by Slashing Safety Money 0
• Jul 30: Senate Debating House’s $7B Trust Fund Fix, With 4 GOP Amendments 0
• Jul 30: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jul 29: Succumbing to Senate Pressure, House Boosts Trust Fund Rescue to $7B 0
• Jul 29: Senior House Members Urge Removal of Amtrak’s New In-House Watchdog 3
• Jul 29: Senate Panel Backs $1.2B for High Speed Rail, $1.4B Extra For Highways 2
• Jul 29: Four Senators Propose Pushing States to Ban Texting While Driving 1
• Jul 29: Your Burger or Your Car! (And More Fun with False Dichotomies) 4
• Jul 29: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jul 28: How Soon Will Cutting Transportation Emissions Save Money? 3
• Jul 28: House to Move Tomorrow on $5B Highway Trust Fund Patch 0
• Jul 28: Oberstar to White House: On Emissions, Back Up Your Words With Action 0
• Jul 28: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jul 27: A Make-or-Break Week for Transportation Begins on the Hill 0
• Jul 27: The Capitol’s 10 Transportation Players to Know 0
• Jul 27: From the Dept. of Mixed Messages: LaHood Touts ‘Cash for Clunkers’ 1
• Jul 27: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jul 23: House Votes on Transportation Spending: Track it Live 0
• Jul 23: Lawmakers Pitch Transport Funding Ideas, From VMT to Freight Taxes 0
• Jul 23: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jul 22: White Roof, Green Roof: Cities Share Climate Solutions on the Hill 2
• Jul 22: Livable Streets Win: Concealed Weapons Amendment Falls in the Senate 1
• Jul 22: Cardin & Carper Bullish on Transit’s Prospects in Senate Climate Bill 0
• Jul 22: Oberstar to Request $3B Patch for Highway Trust Fund 0
• Jul 22: Today’s Headlines 1
• Jul 21: Government Still Taking Hands-Off Approach to Cell Phoning While Driving 1
• Jul 21: New Report on Transpo-Health Dynamic Makes Case for National Targets 1
• Jul 21: Senate Agrees on $26.8 Billion Highway Trust Fund Rescue 0
• Jul 21: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jul 20: House to Take Up Transportation Spending Bill This Week 0
• Jul 20: Know Your Road Lobbyists: The American Highway Users Alliance 1
• Jul 20: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jul 17: An Orszag-ian Principle: Transportation Reform is Health Reform 1
• Jul 17: 5 Down, 5 to Go: Plan Linking Transit to Climate Bill Wins Sponsors 0
• Jul 17: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jul 16: Economic Hardship Standard in Stimulus Sparks Washington Ferry Flap 1
• Jul 16: Team Obama’s Transportation Chain of Command: ‘A Bit Complicated’ 1
• Jul 16: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jul 15: Blumenauer and Co. Face Off With Utility Industry Over Clean Water 1
• Jul 15: White House Staying Quiet For Now on Transit’s Role in Climate Bill 0
• Jul 15: Lawmakers Cross Party Lines on Transpo Funding as Debate Rages 0
• Jul 15: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jul 14: Voinovich Joins House Dems in Saying No to Transpo Funding Stopgap 0
• Jul 14: U.S. Transit Agency Issues Safety Warning After D.C. Metro Crash 0
• Jul 14: Congress Takes First Steps on Obama’s Transpo Budget: The Details 3
• Jul 14: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jul 13: Obama Talks Urban Policy as LaHood Seeks More Urban Transpo Money 1
• Jul 13: GOPer Offers Alternative Climate Plan: More Nuke, Less ‘Energy Sprawl’ 0
• Jul 13: Transit Outsourcing Booms — But Are There Safety Trade-offs? 1
• Jul 13: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jul 10: Republicans Deem Transpo Stimulus — 6% of Total Spending — a ‘Failure’ 0
• Jul 10: Taking GOPer Bachmann a Bit Too Seriously 4
• Jul 10: Taking GOP Graphics a Bit Too Seriously 1
• Jul 10: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jul 09: Did Pelosi Just Side With Oberstar on the Transpo Bill? 5
• Jul 09: Top 20 Metro Areas Get 28% of Road Stimulus, 61% of Transit Stimulus 2
• Jul 09: Boxer Delays Senate Climate Bill Until September 5
• Jul 09: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jul 08: Urban Traffic Report Sparks Clever Headlines, But Little Transit Talk 0
• Jul 08: Lawmakers Aim to Bring ‘Sustainable Communities’ From Talk to Action 0
• Jul 08: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jul 07: Why Road Builders Want a Transportation Bill Now 0
• Jul 07: Senate Starts Climate Push With Nods to Jobs, Energy, and Transportation 1
• Jul 07: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jul 06: Adding More Transportation to the Climate Change Mix 2
• Jul 06: New Report on Old Roads Uses Old Assumptions 2
• Jul 06: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jul 02: Leading Liberal Economist Endorses DeFazio’s Wall Street Transpo Tax 0
• Jul 02: Highway Lobby: Obama DOT’s Transpo Goals ‘Not Appropriate’ 0
• Jul 02: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jul 01: LaHood, Blumenauer Christen New Portland Streetcars 3
• Jul 01: Obama Administration’s Transportation Goals: Read Them Here 2
• Jul 01: House Democrat: We Don’t Have the Votes for Gas Tax Increase 0
• Jul 01: Cities See Population Gains — But What About Political Power? 1
• Jul 01: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jun 30: The GOP Climate ‘Traitors’ Have Something Else in Common … 3
• Jun 30: EPA Okays Stronger Auto Emissions Standards Now in CA, 13 Other States 0
• Jun 30: Lawmakers Investigating the Resignation of Amtrak’s In-House Watchdog 0
• Jun 30: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jun 29: How Did the Senate’s 2008 Climate Bill Treat Transportation? 1
• Jun 29: Report: States Used $6.6B in Stimulus Cash on New Roads, Not Repair 1
• Jun 29: House Climate Bill on Green Transpo: The Details 0
• Jun 29: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jun 26: How Much Operating Aid is Your Local Transit Agency Getting? 0
• Jun 26: Menendez: Transit Agencies Need Help Escaping Tax-Shelter Trap 0
• Jun 26: The Wall Street Tax Shelter That Crashed Your Local Transit Agency 1
• Jun 26: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jun 25: Voinovich: Business Buy-in Can Get a New Transportation Bill Done 1
• Jun 25: Boxer and Inhofe Agree: Transportation Policy Reform Can Wait 5
• Jun 25: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jun 24: Senate Poised to Move on Climate Bill 0
• Jun 24: Your Unlikely Reasonable Voice of the Day 0
• Jun 24: House Transpo Leaders and Obama DOT Run Off in Opposite Directions 0
• Jun 24: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jun 23: The High-Speed Rail Numbers Game: Is $13 Billion and 110MPH Enough? 0
• Jun 23: House Dems Agree: Climate Bill Can Help Pay For Greener Transportation 0
• Jun 23: Senators Seek Rail Safety Funding in Aftermath of Metro Crash 0
• Jun 23: Flashback: Does the Government Owe Transportation $21 Billion? 1
• Jun 23: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jun 22: Oberstar’s Transportation Bill: The Early Word 0
• Jun 22: Oberstar’s Transportation Bill: Download it in Full 1
• Jun 22: New Report Quantifies Benefits of Adding Smart Growth to Climate Bill 0
• Jun 22: Today’s Headlines 1
• Jun 19: A National Infrastructure Bank By Any Other Name … 0
• Jun 19: House GOPers Propose Filling Trust Fund With Stimulus Money 0
• Jun 19: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jun 18: Oberstar’s Bill Praised by Mayors, Engineers 0
• Jun 18: House Transpo Leaders United — in Frustration With the White House 0
• Jun 18: Oberstar Tackles Metro-Area Transportation Planning 1
• Jun 18: But What About the Highways-Transit Split? 2
• Jun 18: Oberstar’s New Transportation Bill: Get The Highlights 2
• Jun 18: Today’s Headlines: The Oberstar/LaHood Edition 0
• Jun 17: Boxer Likes LaHood’s 18-Month Extension Plan 2
• Jun 17: LaHood Asks For 18-Month Extension of Four-Year-Old Transpo Law 1
• Jun 17: Mica: New Federal Transpo Bill Should Have the Need for Speed 0
• Jun 17: DOT Defines High-Speed Rail: ‘Reasonably Expected to Reach … 110 MPH’ 1
• Jun 17: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jun 16: Who Still Thinks the Federal Transportation Bill Will Pass On Time? 2
• Jun 16: Oberstar’s Transportation Unveiling Moved to Thursday 0
• Jun 16: WHO Report Highlights Global Health Risk of Traffic 1
• Jun 16: GOP’s New Attack on Health Care Reform Bill: It Promotes Walking! 10
• Jun 16: In the Works: Senate Bill to Promote Sustainable Development 0
• Jun 16: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jun 15: Report: Nation’s Cities Not Getting Their Share of Stimulus Transpo Money 0
• Jun 15: AARP Sends Its Transportation Priorities to Congress 1
• Jun 15: Oberstar to Release Transportation Outline on Wednesday 0
• Jun 15: Flashback: Is Obama Flipping on Highway Corruption Laws? 3
• Jun 15: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jun 12: Michigan’s Looking Good in the High-Speed Rail Chase 0
• Jun 12: Congress Agrees to Keep Transit Operating Aid in War Bill 1
• Jun 12: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jun 11: We’re Not Just Driving Less — We’re Also Flying Less 0
• Jun 11: GOPers Blast the Newest Dem Star: How Dare He Pay For Transportation! 0
• Jun 11: Carnahan Steps Up Push For Federal Help With Transit Operating 0
• Jun 11: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jun 10: National Transportation Funding Is Ailing — Is Michigan ‘Patient Zero’? 0
• Jun 10: When Will Oberstar’s Transportation Bill Drop? Place Your Bets Now 1
• Jun 10: Today’s Headlines 0
• Jun 09: House Boosts Transpo and Housing Spending Levels By 25% 0
• Jun 09: Lawmakers Push For Federal Help With Transit Operating: Read the Letter 1
• Jun 09: GOP-ers and Dems Agree: Feds Need to Get Their Transpo Act Together 0
• Jun 09: Welcome to Streetsblog Capitol Hill 11
• Jun 08: House to Vote This Week on Weak ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Plan 2
• Jun 04: House GOP Urges Elimination of (GOP-Backed) Kid Safety Program 5
• Jun 04: LaHood Vows to Avert Federal Transpo Bankruptcy and Pay For It 2
• Jun 04: Transit Planners to Congress: Please Figure Out How to Fund Us 3
• Jun 03: LaHood, Biden Meet With Governors on High-Speed Rail 14
• Jun 02: Cycling in National Cemetery: Yea or Nay? 8
• Jun 02: Bush Transpo Secretary’s Biggest Disappointment: Bush 5
• Jun 02: Obama’s Highways Chief: Wishy-Washy on Emissions? 4
• Jun 01: Solve the Congestion Crisis And Win $50,000 6
• May 29: Polly Trottenberg Tapped For Senior U.S. DOT Spot 1
• May 29: Sotomayor’s Eminent Domain Stance: What Does It Mean for Cities? 15
• May 28: Obama Keeps Roads Out of National Forests — For a Time 2
• May 28: Flashback: Obama Once Led Push for ‘Complete Streets’ 6
• May 27: Why Buy More Trains If You Can’t Afford to Run Them? 7
• May 26: Infrastructure Bank Plan Gaining Attention And Momentum 6
• May 22: Recovery.org Tracks The Stimulus Faster Than The Guys Spending It 2
• May 21: LaHood: ‘About Everything We Do Around Here Is Government Intrusion’ 3
• May 21: What Happens to a Closed-Down Auto Plant? 12
• May 21: Senator Takes Hybrid Hummer on a Semi-Wild Ride 4
• May 20: Just Four Lawmakers Show Up to Pitch Local Transportation Projects 2
• May 20: Portland Congressman to George Will: Let’s Debate 3
• May 20: Transportation ‘Expert’: Long Commutes Are a Status Symbol 28
• May 19: Illinois Congressman Pushes for Pro-Bike Transportation Bill 0
• May 19: The Long, Ugly Road to a Federal Transportation Plan 8
• May 18: Congress Reluctant to Shine Light on Transportation Earmarks 10
• May 18: Obama’s Energy Secretary Reclaims His Bike, for a Day 1
• May 18: Will: Government Shouldn’t Interfere — Except to Benefit Big Highways 10
• May 15: Congressional Climate Bill Includes ‘Complete Streets’ But Not CLEAN TEA 3
• May 15: National Geographic Reveals the World’s Transit Superstars 7
• May 14: Congress Takes a First Step Towards Reshaping Transportation Policy 4
• May 14: Who Cares About the Highway Trust Fund? 4
• May 13: Senators Hear From Obama’s Transit Chief-in-Waiting 0
• May 13: Less Than One Percent of Transpo Stimulus Money Paid Out So Far 0
• May 12: A Federal Transportation Bill Is Coming… But When? 1