Building America’s Future’s just released a report entitled, Falling Apart and Falling Behind. InfrastructureUSA’s Managing Director Steve Anderson discussed the findings with former Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell, a Co-Chair of President of Building America’s Future’s Educational Fund (BAF), and Marcia Hale, President of BAF.
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Building America’s Future: Falling Apart and Falling Behind
Thursday, August 11th, 2011Building America’s Future: Falling Apart and Falling Behind
Monday, August 8th, 2011
BUILDING AMERICA’S FUTURE
Rebuilding America’s economic foundation is one of the most important missions we face in the 21st century. Our parents and grandparents built America into the world’s leading economic superpower. We have a responsibility to our own children and grandchildren to strengthen—not squander —that inheritance, and to pass on to them a country whose best days are still ahead.
View this complete post...NYC 2nd Ave Subway construction worker
Friday, August 5th, 2011Gary, construction worker on the 2nd ave subway line sings during lunch hour. original, official video – fish31171 on YouTube
View this complete post...How Might Transportation Funding be Impacted by Debt Deal?
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011TRANSPORTATION ISSUES DAILY
Whether by the hands of the new fiscal commission or through the alternative automatic cuts, federal transportation funding is going to decline dramatically compared to recent years. The Senate transportation proposal, which counted on a $12 billion infusion of general funding, suddenly looks just a little less attainable. So too is the prospect of a better-funded bill in two years, if Congress doesn’t pass a bill this year.
View this complete post...Connecting the West Corridor Communities: An Implementation Strategy for TOD along the Denver Region’s West Corridor
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
CENTER FOR TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT
Light rail in the West Corridor presents an incredible opportunity for transit-oriented development to leverage market momentum for new investment and community building. A focus on TOD will support growth near new transit stations, enhance access to opportunity, preserve and enhance the supply of a range of housing choices, reduce the combined costs of housing and transportation, and support walking and biking to stations. However, implementing TOD along the West Corridor will not be a quick or simple process.
View this complete post...Public Perceptions on Transportation Characteristics of Livable Communities: The 2009 Omnibus Household Survey
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
RESEARCH AND INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY ADMINISTRATION
BUREAU OF TRANSPORTATION STATISTICS
Responses to the 2009 OHS suggest that a majority of the public considered it important to have a wide range of transportation alternatives. The majority also strongly supported the provision of facilities that permit continued reliance on the personal automobile in the community in which they live.
Bicycle-Rail Trip Analysis and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Focused Study
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
LOS ANGELES COUNTY METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) recently began studying the ways in which bicycling, for transportation and in combination with transit, can reduce automobile use and lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions…The purpose of this study is to establish the benefits of providing an integrated transportation system where bicyclists are accommodated at train stations and on trains.
Oakland, California: Caldecott Fourth Bore Project, Early Excavation
Monday, June 27th, 2011Caldecott Fourth Bore Project, Early Excavation of West Portal. Video by Dennis Parecadan – district4ct on YouTube
View this complete post...Performance Driven: Achieving Wiser Investment in Transportation
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER
In the long term, the programmatic framework proposed in this report allows for the achievement of wiser investments. It offers a sound strategy for securing broad public support for policies and resource commitments that will allow the U.S. to continue to achieve high standards of living and remain competitive in a highly mobile, global economy. It provides a way to make substantial investment and tangible improvement to the vital transportation systems on which our nation depends.
Adjusting to Fiscal and Political Realities
Monday, June 20th, 2011The practical implications of this policy for the federal-aid transportation program are unambiguous: federal budget authority in FY 2012 and beyond will be limited to tax receipts flowing into the Highway Trust Fund. Those revenues (plus interest) will amount to an estimated $36.9 billion in 2011 according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)— $31.8 billion will be credited to the Highway Account and $5.1 billion to the Transit Account. Over the next ten years, CBO estimates these revenues will grow at an average rate of a little more than one percent per year, largely reflecting expected growth in motor fuel consumption. (“The Highway Trust Fund and Paying for Highways,” testimony of Joseph Kile, Asst. Director of CBO, before the Senate Finance Committee, May 17, 2011).
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