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Federal Stimulus

March 2010
Mon 15: LaHood Reaches Out to Transit Industry, Lamenting 'Lousy Economy' 1
Fri 12: Bike-Ped Access to Cleveland's New Bridge Picking Up Political Support 0
Thu 11: U.S. DOT Cagey on Funding New Transport Bill as Senators Seek Solutions 3
Thu 4: House Set to Pass Jobs Bill With Changes, Prompting Another Senate Vote 1
Thu 4: Moody's Gifts Fossil-Fuel States With Positive Credit Outlook 1
Wed 3: New Dem Campaign Brands Stimulus Critics as 'Highway Hypocrites' 2
Tue 2: TCS: Disputed Transport Provision in Jobs Bill Rewarded Political Clout 0
Tue 2: Transportation Filibuster Update: Bunning Won't Yield to Fellow GOPer 4
February 2010
Fri 26: Deja Vu Again: One-Man Senate Filibuster Imperils Federal Transport Law 12
Thu 25: Build America Bonds: Good for Transportation ... Good for Goldman Sachs? 1
Thu 25: Report: Obama's 2011 Budget Leaves Cities in a Fiscal Hole of $16B-Plus 0
Wed 24: Little-Known Provision in Senate Jobs Bill Could Spark House Resistance 0
Tue 23: House Lawmakers Hail Transportation Stimulus -- But Add Three Caveats 2
Tue 23: Voinovich Secures Dem Promise to Hold a Senate Vote on Transpo in 2010 3
Mon 22: Barbour Breaks With AASHTO Chief on Stimulus' Transportation Benefits 0
Mon 22: The Upside of GOP 'Hypocrisy' on Transportation Stimulus Grants 0
Fri 19: Connecticut Lawmakers Livid at the State's Transport Stimulus Shutout 0
Fri 19: New Analysis: Major Cities Still Shortchanged by Transportation Stimulus 0
Thu 18: 17 Democrats Urge Reid: Don't Forget Infrastructure in Your Jobs Push 0
Thu 18: A Day After Their TIGER Win, Freight Railroads Carve Out More Turf 7
Thu 18: Rail Expert Reutter: White House Misfired on High-Speed Rail Stimulus 11
Wed 17: Road and Transit Groups Join Boxer to Push for Senate Jobs Bill 0
Wed 17: Who Lost Out in the Bid for a Piece of TIGER Transportation Stimulus? 3
Wed 17: Freight Rail, Streetcars Are Tops in Stimulus' TIGER Chase 6
Tue 16: NYC's Moynihan Station is the First Big TIGER Stimulus Winner 11
Fri 12: White House Economic Report Touts TIGER, High-Speed Rail, Transit 2
Thu 11: Bipartisan Senate Jobs Bill Has Highway Trust Fund Rescue But No TIGER 5
Wed 10: AASHTO Stimulus Report Omits Jobs Data Comparing Transit With Roads 1
Fri 5: TIGER Grant Winners to be Announced By February 17 0
Thu 4: Two Troubling Transportation Numbers for the Obama Administration 1
Thu 4: DeLauro Questions Obama Budget's Infrastructure Fund Proposal 0
Thu 4: Senate Dems to Call Up Jobs Bill Monday ... With Transport Details TBA 0
January 2010
Fri 29: Biden Says High-Speed Rail Money Ignored Politics -- Was He Right? 4
Wed 27: One More Reason to Dig TIGER: Transit and Roads on the Same Footing 1
Wed 27: Transit Riders Launch Grassroots Lobbying Push in Dire Political Climate 0
Tue 26: Senate Weighs $14B for Roads, $7.5B for Transit in Jobs Bill 2
Tue 26: Democrats Learning to Love the I-Word -- But Will Words Bring Action? 0
Thu 21: What if America's Urban Economies Were National Ones? 6
Wed 20: Dodd and DeLauro Vow to Get Infrastructure Bank Done This Year 1
Tue 19: CBO Echoes Obama's Candor on the Pitfalls of 'Shovel-Readiness' 2
Fri 15: Could a Green Bank Hitch a Ride on the Jobs Bill? 0
Fri 15: Enviro Group Sees State DOTs' Transport Predictions -- and Raises Them 0
Thu 14: LaHood Wants More TIGER Aid in the Congressional Jobs Bill 0
Mon 11: White House and Congress Take Issue With AP's Transport Stimulus Claims 0
Fri 8: Coming Soon: A Senate Jobs Bill ... With a New Approach to Transport? 0
Tue 5: Stimulus Jobs From Transit vs. Roads: A Tale of Two States 1
December 2009
Mon 28: Adding a Dose of Honesty to the Congressional Job-Creation Debate 0
Thu 17: Transit Jobs Nearly Twice as Cheap to Create as Roads -- By Congress' Math 0
Wed 16: House Jobs Bill Answers Some Key Transportation Questions 2
Wed 16: House Jobs Bill Could Make General Electric's Amtrak Wish Come True 7
Wed 16: Geithner Adviser Backs 'More Merit-Based' Infrastructure Spending 0
Tue 15: House Jobs Bill Mimics the Stimulus: $27.5B for Roads, $8.4B for Transit 1
Tue 15: New Report: Minority-Owned Businesses Left Out of Transport Stimulus 0
Tue 15: The Footnote to All Those Complaints About Tax Cuts as Stimulus 2
Fri 11: Congressional Black Caucus Calls for Bypassing States on New Jobs Bill 0
Wed 9: McCain & Coburn: Inadvertent Transportation Reformers? 2
Tue 8: White House Backs $50B For 'Merit-Based Infrastructure Investment' 0
Tue 8: Wall Street Bailout Money For Infrastructure? Maybe Not 0
Mon 7: NY and CA: How Did They Spend Transportation Stimulus Money? 1
Mon 7: Rendell: National Infrastructure Bank Could Move as Part of New Jobs Bill 0
Fri 4: Senate Version of Wall Street Transportation Tax Coming Next Week 8
Thu 3: Obama's Frank Talk About the 'Tension' of the 'Shovel-Ready' Concept 0
Thu 3: Rendell & Lawmakers Aligning on 2-Year, Treasury-Funded Transport Bill 0
Thu 3: Streetsblog Capitol Hill Q&A: Blumenauer Talks Economic Recovery 0
Wed 2: Congress Gets Project Lists for Jobs Bill: $15B for Transit, $48B for Roads 3
Wed 2: One More Sign That the Stimulus Traded Infrastructure for Tax Cuts 0
Tue 1: The Missed Opportunity For an Urban Stimulus: Mayors 'Were Ignored' 0
November 2009
Wed 25: The Case For a Merit-Based and Front-Loaded Infrastructure Bill 1
Thu 19: Is the Stimulus Working For Cities? Not So Much, Mayors Say 0
Thu 19: Pelosi: Passing a Wall Street Transport Tax Would Require Overseas Buy-in 0
Thu 19: A Warning From America's Cities: The Recession Has Only Just Begun to Hit 1
Wed 18: 'This Needs Attention': Senators Seek Shot in the Arm on Transportation 0
Tue 17: Dems, AFL-CIO Step Up Push for Infrastructure Spending as Job Creator 0
October 2009
Thu 29: The New Curveball: A $150 Billion Transportation Down Payment 0
Thu 22: Transit Creates As Many Jobs As Roads -- But it Could Do Even Better 0
Fri 16: Transport Debate Still Stalled As Oberstar Decries 'Lack of Political Will' 0
Thu 15: The Oversight Gap in Team Obama's High-Speed Rail Plan 0
Wed 14: New Orleans GOPer Still Sore at Jindal For Saying No to High-Speed Rail 5
Tue 13: Six States Seek Stimulus Aid to Add Rail to Congestion-Plagued I-81 3
Fri 9: CNU Summit to Focus on Reforming Transportation, Planning Principles 0
Fri 9: Bridging the Local-National Message Divide: The Climate Bill is the Answer 0
Tue 6: $8B for High-Speed Rail, $1.5B in Transport Stimulus Coming This Winter 0
Fri 2: Killing the Myth of the 'More Shovel-Ready' Road Stimulus, Part II 2
Fri 2: Spending Transportation Stimulus Money Fast vs. Spending it Well 0
September 2009
Fri 11: Stimulus Spotlight: Delaware Town Boosts Bike-Ped Access to Bus Stop 0
Thu 3: Mmmm, This 'Pork' Sounds Tasty: Senators Serve Up Transit Aid 2
Thu 3: Biden on Stimulus Aid to Cities: 'We're Trying ... It's Imperfect' 1
Wed 2: Killing the Myth of the 'More Shovel-Ready' Road Stimulus 0
Wed 2: A Last Word on 'Cash for Clunkers' 1
August 2009
Fri 21: D.C. City Government Considers "Cash for Close-in Urban Living" 0
Thu 20: Jindal's Not Alone: Guvs Who Shunned Stimulus Warm to High-Speed Rail 6
Thu 20: Stimulus Spotlight: Oregon's Solar Highway 6
Wed 19: Crunching June Stimulus Numbers: Roads Create Pricier Jobs Than Transit 0
Fri 14: The Times' Thickheaded Train Tag Team 1
Tue 4: How to Judge "Cash for Clunkers" 4
July 2009
Fri 31: Road Stimulus Money: Half Spent on Repaving, 17% on Widening 0
Fri 10: Republicans Deem Transpo Stimulus -- 6% of Total Spending -- a 'Failure' 1
Fri 10: In Search of Stimulus on Capitol Hill 0
Thu 9: Top 20 Metro Areas Get 28% of Road Stimulus, 61% of Transit Stimulus 2
June 2009
Tue 30: Stimulus Lesson: When Time is of the Essence, Invest in Transit 1
Mon 29: Report: States Used $6.6B in Stimulus Cash on New Roads, Not Repair 1
Mon 15: Report: Nation's Cities Not Getting Their Share of Stimulus Transpo Money 0
May 2009
Fri 22: Recovery.org Tracks The Stimulus Faster Than The Guys Spending It 2
Wed 13: Less Than One Percent of Transpo Stimulus Money Paid Out So Far 0
Fri 8: Stim Cash Gone Bad: Feds Fund Houston's Highway to Nowhere 3
April 2009
Mon 27: Obama's Touted Office of Urban Policy Slow to Take Shape 2
Tue 14: Obama Falls Prey to Ribbon-Cutting Syndrome 7
March 2009
Tue 31: NYC Stim Projects Help Fund Big Bike-Ped Improvements 18
Thu 26: Back to the Grid: John Norquist on How to Fix National Transpo Policy 15
February 2009
Wed 18: Hope Springs Eternal for American Transpo Policy 8
Wed 18: Stimulus Bill Is a Step Forward for Pedestrians, Cyclists & Cities 4
Fri 13: Tonight: PBS on Transit, States, and the Stimulus 6
Thu 12: Final Stimulus Bill Slaps Transit Riders in the Face 24
Wed 11: Wiki Wednesday: The Story of the Stimulus 1
Wed 11: Stim Bill About to Enter Final Negotiations 3
Tue 10: Cartoon Tuesday: Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back? 0
Tue 10: Obama: The Days of "Building Sprawl Forever" Are Over 14
Tue 10: Senate Approves Stimulus Bill -- On to Conference Committee 0
Mon 9: Senate Requires Environmental Approval For Stimulus Projects 7
Sat 7: Stimulus Update: Senate Compromise Unlikely to Raid Transit Funds 7
Fri 6: Senator Jim DeMint Wants to Eliminate Bike Stim Funds: Take Action! 7
Fri 6: Urgent Action: Billions for Transit in Jeopardy 3
Fri 6: Where Does Stimulus Cash Go From Here? TSTC Explains. 2
Thu 5: Senate's $50 Billion Highway Giveaway Nearly Dead 1
Thu 5: The Boxer/Inhofe Amendment: Not Green Enough 2
Wed 4: Update on Stimulus Action in the Senate -- Keep Up the Pressure 3
Wed 4: Albany's Transit Sins Come Back to Bite America 4
Wed 4: Urgent Action: Oppose Highway Robbery in Senate Stim Bill 6
Tue 3: It Gets Worse: Boxer/Inhofe to Request $50B More for Highways 10
Tue 3: Cartoon Tuesday: Political Suicide 0
Tue 3: Republican Minority Blocks Murray Amendment 0
Tue 3: Tell Your Senator to Support Transit and Green Jobs, Not Highways 1
Tue 3: Stimulus + Mass Transit = Opportunity 3