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June 19, 2017

Stories You May Have Missed

As a valued member, Transportation for America is dedicated to providing you pertinent information. This includes news articles to inform your work. Check out a list of stories you may have missed last week. 

  • Both Republican and Democratic House Appropriators pushed back against the Trump Administration’s proposed U.S. DOT budget cuts during a hearing with U.S DOT Secretary Elaine Chao. (Bloomberg)
  • U.S. DOT Secretary Elaine Chao called the TIGER program “earmarks” and said the Administration equivocally does not support the New Starts program during the hearing with House Appropriators. (Route Fifty)
  • “After President Trump’s ‘infrastructure week’ was widely mocked among media members, some politicians, lawmakers and advocates who are serious about wanting to see the nation’s roads and bridges improved are grappling with how to move forward.” (Washington Examiner)
  • Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune (Republican-South Dakota) and Ranking Member Bill Nelson (Democrat-Florida) released a set of six bipartisan legislative principals for any future regulation of automated vehicles. (GovTech, Senate Commerce Committee)
  • An effort to raise the Louisiana gas tax this legislative session failed and may not come back until 2021. (The Advocate)
  • A new report finds that New York City “vision zero” efforts finds that pedestrian and cyclist fatalities have declined on streets have that have received vision zero redesigns, but increased on streets that haven’t received redesigns. The report also finds that New York City is not investing enough money in street redesigns in low-income neighborhoods relative to the risk of biking and walking in these neighborhoods and a large factor is internal community board resistance. (Streetsblog, Manhattan Institute)

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