Building the new 11th Street Inbound Freeway Bridge. – DDOTVideos on YouTube
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Setting Steel Across the Anacostia
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011Rethinking Federal Investments in Rural Transportation
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
RURAL POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
The Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) offers this Rural Policy Brief as a contribution to the current dialogue regarding the ongoing nature and scope of transportation investment in the United States, specifically the implications of these decisions for our nation’s rural communities and regions. The policy recommendations outlined below reflect a detailed, evidence-based analysis, but also incorporate the accumulated policy and program insights gained in over two decades of RUPRI assessment of the rural differential impacts of public policy.
Transportation 101: An Introduction to Federal Transportation Policy
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
TRANSPORTATION FOR AMERICA
The next transportation bill must address the many challenges our nation is facing: crippling commutes, rising costs, wasteful spending, lack of options and economic development in our urban, suburban and rural communities. As Congress prepares to debate the next bill, Transportation for America offers this guidebook as a reference to existing policies and programs, their historical background and the issues that numerous stakeholders believe must be addressed this time around.
Recent Lessons from the Stimulus: Transportation Funding and Job Creation
Monday, February 7th, 2011
SMART GROWTH AMERICA
As part of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA), states and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) received $26.6 billion in transportation funds that could be spent on almost any surface transportation needs. While there were many national goals for this money, arguably the most pressing need was to save and create jobs.
Growing Wealthier: Smart Growth, Climate Change & Prosperity
Monday, January 24th, 2011
CENTER FOR CLEAN AIR POLICY
The preponderance of the evidence leads us to conclude that an inclusive planning process that yields more walkable neighborhoods with broader housing and transportation options can help communities, businesses and individuals make money, save money and improve quality of life.
The Unraveling of the High-Speed Rail Program: A News Analysis
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010The future Republican House leadership is determined to retrieve whatever remains of the unspent and uncommitted stimulus (ARRA) funds. So has stated Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA), the prospective House Appropriations Committee chairman, as he introduced a bill (H.R. 6403, the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Rescission Act”) to rescind any unobligated ARRA funds and return them to the U.S. Treasury. Even already obligated ARRA funds may be at risk. Congressional GOP aides are reported to be closely reviewing agency records to identify particular stimulus-funded projects that could still be “reasonably” halted because work on them is only beginning.
View this complete post...A Fresh Look at the Prospects for Transportation in the New Congress
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010Last month we conducted an informal survey among colleagues in the transportation community about the outlook for the federal surface transportation program in the year(s) ahead…One comment from a veteran transportation insider summed up concisely the collective mindset: “There will be nothing ‘transformational’ about the future program,” he opined.
View this complete post...2010 Voters Support Transportation Funding
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
The Center for Transportation Excellence (CFTE) released a chart showing that 44 of the 57 transportation measures on the ballot in 2010 have passed, for an overall success rate of 77%. “Yesterday’s results at the ballot box reaffirm a decade worth of data demonstrating voters’ overwhelming support for investment in public transportation,” said CFTE Executive […]
View this complete post...Analysis Of Federal Sustainable Communities Grants
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
RECONNECTING AMERICA
The past few months have been an exciting time as large and small communities, representing all corners of the country, have worked on developing collaborative planning processes that will address the unique conditions in their region and which will improve the quality of life for the diverse people that live, work and play there…The impetus for this has been competition for grants springing from the unprecedented partnership announced last year between the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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