Still a few days left to express your thoughts on where the budget knife should fall next at the Portland Office of Transportation as the recession continues to decrease available revenue from gas taxes: If you had to cut $6.4 million from the City’s Transportation budget, how would you prioritize programs? Please take our survey…

Oberstar on raising the gas tax to fund the Interstate Highway System: “But in those days there was a sense of destiny, of future, of what is good for America — not what is good for my political career. But what we’ve had in the last 12 years is a no-tax philosophy, and so there’s…

I found this little gift in my RSS reader – a post on Streetsblog.net on all the ways that we subsidize auto drivers. So let me re-gift this to all our Portland Transport readers, and especially to you, Terry. A merry, joyous and healthy holiday to all…

Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal reported on Jim Oberstar’s efforts to steer a larger split of the funding pie to transit in the stimulus package. Meanwhile, over on the Streetsblog Network they’re covering Transportation for America’s push for a greener stimulus.

The Friends of Earth have released a report titled “Road to Ruin” identifying 27 highway projects they are unnecessary and unbalanced. The report underscores a key imbalance between road and transit funding from the Federal Government. Uneven Playing Field–To gain approval and federal funding, transit projects face far more intense scrutiny than highway projects. While…