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Transit Trimmed in Final Stimulus Deal
The dollars allocated by the House to the New Starts program got dropped in conference committee. The Transport Politic blog has a full comparison. On the upside, high-speed rail got $8B.
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TriMet Seeks Public Input for Stimulus Fund Spending
TriMet has posted a list of projects eligible for funding from the federal stimulous package. Only about $60 million overall can be spent, so TriMet is asking for public input as to which projects should have the highest priority. According to TriMet, the stimulous money cannot be used for operations (which is sad, because you…
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The End of Sprawl as We Know it?
Obama on the road: It’s imagining new transportation systems. I’d like to see high speed rail where it can be constructed. I would like for us to invest in mass transit because potentially that’s energy efficient. And I think people are a lot more open now to thinking regionally… The days where we’re just building…
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Senate Attacks Alternative Transportation in Stimulus
Here’s a not from the Streetsblog network urging folks to call their Senators NOW. There are also efforts going on to specifically strip bike funding… Senators Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Susan Collins (R-ME) are leading a small group of centrist Senators which, reportedly, is trying to cut the stimulus by about $100 billion. Supposedly, they…
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Revisiting the Stimulus and Transit
The word on the street is that after some small victories in the House ($3B added to capital funding for transit) there will be another fight in the Senate where various amendments are being proposed to strip transit funds and move them to highways, or to simply add $50B to highways. Meanwhile the New York…