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Advocates Find Surprises in Infrastructure Bill
Here are a few of the highlights — and outrages — that are lighting up Twitter feeds this week.
August 6, 2021
BREAKING: National ‘Vision Zero’ Resolution Introduced
It's an important first step on a path toward more concrete policy change, advocates say.
July 28, 2021
Details Lacking in Federal Infrastructure ‘Deal’ (But it Will Likely Favor Cars)
June 25, 2021
OPINION: Envisioning a Federal Program to Increase Transit Service
It took the clarifying urgency of a severe pandemic to make transit service a national funding priority. But we need to do more, argues two advocates at TransitCenter.
April 25, 2021
Stringer Sends Secretary Pete a Laundry List of Local Infrastructure Needs
He's not mayor yet, but Scott Stringer still has a to-do list for the federal government to help upgrade the city's infrasturcutre.
April 16, 2021
Why Biden Is Right to Think Beyond the DOT in His Infrastructure Package
Opponents of President Biden's infrastructure plan ignore that "transportation infrastructure" must include tackling our frayed social safety nets and our broken street designs.
April 12, 2021
Mass. Senator Markey Has Four Bills to Loosen Car Culture’s Grip on U.S. Cities
March 3, 2021
MEMO FROM THE MIDWEST: Buttigieg’s American Roots Might Make Him a Great USDOT Secretary
Is Buttigieg a hayseed Hoosier who wouldn't know a headway from a harvester, or a political ecoterrorist hellbent on leaving rural American in the lurch and laughing all the way to the Amtrak station? Neither: He's a guy from South Bend.
February 5, 2021
Georgia Senate Wins Put Major Transportation Reform Within Reach
Democrats reclaiming majority control of the Senate creates a path to a green infrastructure bill that has eluded sustainable transportation advocates for decades.
January 6, 2021
MTA Prepares To Borrow $3B From Federal Reserve
The MTA Board is expected to approve a resolution that would allow the agency to borrow the maximum amount from the Municipal Liquidity Facility fund.
November 17, 2020
