The House’s transportation proposal would cut total transportation funding by one-third, kill the tiny slice of dedicated funding for safer walking and biking and drastically reduce transit support, while failing to focus on fixing and repairing our crumbling roads and bridges. There’s still a good chance for a better Senate bill, so weigh in with your Senators today.

Sidewalkers Originally uploaded by Transportation for America to Flickr. Photo by the Safe Routes to School National Partnership Transportation is what connects us all to the things we need each day, making life possible. But the decisions we’ve made about where and how to spend our transportation dollars have extended that opportunity to some people [...]

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee leadership released a 22-page outline of their upcoming transportation reauthorization proposal yesterday. (Read our statement here.) The outline indicates that the full bill cuts overall transportation funding by 35 percent and removes the requirement to spend a small fraction on bike and pedestrian facilities. The current balance between highway [...]

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Democrats held their own news conference right on the heels of Chairman John Mica’s hearing this morning and, judging by the tone of their remarks, the two parties are not on the same page. “While we have yet to see much of the details of this legislation, based on the [...]

Several organizations representing users, trade groups and industries weighed in on House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica’s unveiling of his principles for a transportation reauthorization this morning. The recurring theme in most of them appears to be ringing disappointment in a bill that would spend less money than the last transportation reauthorization in [...]

Today, House Transportation and Infrastructure committee chairman John Mica (R-FL) released an outline of principles for a proposed six-year transportation bill. The $230 billion, six-year proposal represents a 35 percent spending reduction with potentially significant impacts on road and bridge repair and maintenance, as well as public transportation and safer walking and bicycling. James Corless, director of Transportation for America, had this to say in response to the Chairman’s proposal.

Here’s a downloadable PDF version of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s just-released summary of their forthcoming transportation bill. We’ll have some analysis and a statement later today. Click here or on image to download

Rep. Mica and his fellow leaders on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will roll out details on their proposed six-year transportation reauthorization at a press conference in just a few minutes at 11 a.m. Eastern. You should be able to find an online stream at http://transportation.house.gov. We’re checking to see if C-SPAN might be [...]

Although a Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the Obama administration set and followed a merit based decision-making process for awarding high-speed rail and TIGER grants, several Republican lawmakers claimed the report revealed a lack of transparency and accountability for where the money went. “Although we can develop cost-effective high-speed rail transportation in this country, [...]

The Build America Bonds program, a popular infrastructure investment initiative in the 2009 Recovery Act, did not make it into the bipartisan tax deal struck by President Obama and Congressional Republicans late last year. But Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, is now attempting a rebrand and relaunch.