On Friday, the New York City Department of Transportation unveiled a new temporary outdoor exhibit on a 50-foot corrugated fence under the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge at the junction of Vernon Boulevard and South Queens Plaza in Queens. The show, called When it opens like this, up is not over, exhibits six large-scale color photographs…
ProPublica’s Michael Grabell speaks with Brian Lehrer on his new book “Monday Well Spent?” analyzing the stimulus bill. Other insights: the bill created the tea-party, no one had any idea which projects were stimulus projects, and no one noticed when their teachers weren’t fired. And — the bill wasn’t nearly as effective as it could…
An expert in infrastructure financing and former member of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District has been elected to head the California High Speed Rail Authority. Dan Richard of Piedmont has been tapped to chair the authority, which faces withering criticism from mostly Republican critics who say the $98 billion price tag is…
The reviews are in on the House transportation bill: “It’s like funding a quit-smoking program by lowering the smoking age to generate more revenue from cigarette taxes.” (USPIRG statement) “It would reverse all the progress we have made in the past 20 years…horrible.” (League of American Bicyclists) “This bill is less about creating jobs and…
House Republicans rolled out parts of a $260 billion transportation infrastructure bill Tuesday, casting the legislation as a major vehicle for job creation and energy production. The five-year bill reauthorizes highway, transit and safety programs but also eliminates or consolidates dozens of existing federal functions. Supporters said its designed to streamline federally-funded projects, cut bureaucratic…
State Senator Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) introduced legislation today that would put high-speed rail back on the November ballot in California. The measure would give voters the chance to de-authorize the $9 billion bond measure passed in 2008. According to Mark Spannagel, spokesman for Senator LaMalfa, the measure would “eliminate the project.” In a statement, LaMalfa…
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood doesn’t think there’s much chance Congress will pass a surface transportation spending bill this year. The bill is on its way to being three years late — it was supposed to be reauthorized in September, 2009. “Given the politics, the number of days that remain, the differences between what the…
The U.S. Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, still wants to connect 80 percent of Americans to high speed rail by 2036. That’s the goal that President Barack Obama laid out in last year’s state of the union. But since then, the governors of Florida and Ohio followed Wisconsin’s governor in halting their states’ projects, and congress…
Two nods to transportation in the State of the Union; to the auto industry, and cutting red tape. Nothing like last year’s SOTU, where the president promised to connect 80 percent of Americans to high speed rail by 2036 and to put a million electric vehicles on the roads. For an analysis of all of…
UPDATED WITH NYS DOT COMMISSIONER JOAN MCDONALD’S COMMENTS: New York State says there are no serious environmental challenges facing its planned replacement of the Tappan Zee Bridge. The draft environmental impact statement (DEIS), which was posted on the state’s Tappan Zee website Tuesday, signaled no major changes in the state’s approach to replacing the aging…
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