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…
(Michael Grabell, ProPublica) [1]This story was adapted from “Money Well Spent?: The Truth Behind the Trillion-Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History [1],” which will be published Tuesday by PublicAffairs. A common criticism of President Obama’s $800 billion stimulus package has been that it failed to produce anything – that while the New…
We took KALW’s news magazine, Crosscurrents, on the road and devoted an entire show to life on two wheels in the SF Bay Area. Our intrepid (and very fit) executive news editor, Ben Trefny, hosted the show while riding 23 miles all over San Francisco. You can listen to the whole show here: In it,…
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…
“Bouncy and peppy” is the way Houston electric car dealer Rick Ehrlich describes the small, three-wheeled pickup that sits outside his Houston electric car business. “It’s a funny little truck,” adds Ehrlich as we take it for a spin around the parking lot. It’s a no-frills Zap pickup that weighs about 1800 pounds. It’s…
The NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority says blasting for the creation of the Second Avenue subway line has not increased pollution. But something else apparently did elevate some pollutants during the time the air was being tested. The MTA commissioned the study from private firm Parsons Brinckerhoff. It did find elevated levels of three pollutants…
(Billings, MT – YPR) – The car-centric West poses a challenge for college students who arrive on campus without a car. Public transportation can be limited, and far flung classrooms, and snow and ice storms can be a challenge for students who live on campus — but attend classes miles away. Transportation is also a…
(Billings, MT – YPR) – Montana’s Congressional delegation is critical of President Barack Obama’s decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline. (See a map of proposed pipeline here and here.) Senator Max Baucus, D-MT, pledged to continue to fight for approval of the pipeline that would cross Montana from the oil tar sand fields in…
UPDATED WITH STATE DEPARTMENT RELEASE: From the White House: Statement by the President on the Keystone XL Pipeline Earlier today, I received the Secretary of State’s recommendation on the pending application for the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. As the State Department made clear last month, the rushed and arbitrary deadline insisted on by…
NPR’s got the roundup of news stories on the pipeline’s demise: Several news outlets are reporting that the Obama administration will reject TransCanada’s proposal to run an oil pipeline across the U.S.-Canada border. The Washington Post reports the administration will make it official later today and will allow TransCanada to reapply once it has a…
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