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With conference underway, how do the House and Senate bills stack up?

12 Nov 2015 | Posted by Steve Davis | 0 Comments | comparison, complete streets, DRIVE Act, passenger rail, RREEA, RRIF, STRR Act, table, TIFIA, TIGER, TOD, transit, Transportation Alternatives

While the multi-year transportation bills passed by the House last week and the Senate back in July are fairly similar, there are still some notable differences between the two. With the conference committee getting underway to reconcile the bills, it’s worth looking at the similarities and differences.

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10 things you need to know about the Senate’s DRIVE Act

31 Jul 2015 | Posted by Steve Davis | 2 Comments | authorization, DRIVE Act, freight, funding, local control, passenger rail, performance measures, senate, TIFIA, TIGER, Transportation Alternatives

Though the Senate finally moved beyond repeated short-term extensions to the nation’s transportation program with a multi-year bill, their DRIVE Act is also major missed opportunity to give cities, towns and local communities of all sizes more control over and access to federal transportation dollars. Here are nine other things that you need to know about the Senate’s bill.

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Four senators introduce bill to help finance transit-oriented development

2 May 2014 | Posted by David Goldberg | 3 Comments | infrastructure, innovative financing, Schatz, TIFIA, TOD, transit

Senators Brian Schatz (D-HI), Ed Markey (D-MA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) have introduced an important bill to make it easier for communities to support economic development around transit stations. For any community with a high-capacity transit line – subway, light rail, bus rapid transit – encouraging walkable development around the stations is […]

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