Topic – Federal Transportation Funding

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  Feds prove if you build nonmotorized infrastructure, they will walk / ride

  $100 million SAFETEA-LU pilot

  Jay Blazek Crossley, May 08, 12.

  A pilot program invested $25 million each in 4 communities for bicycle pedestrian infrastructure and showed less driving, more active transportation.

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  Obama signs short-term transportation bill

  Prevents widespread shutdown

  Matt Dietrichson, Apr 02, 12.

  President Obama has signed into law a temporary stop-gap extension of the transportation bill, which was contentiously approved by the House last Thursday.

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  More transportation confusion in House

  "The delays are costing jobs"

  Matt Dietrichson, Mar 28, 12.

  Just one day afterdelaying a vote, the House again faltered while trying to extend federal transportation funding before it expires at midnight on Saturday.

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  Senate passes transportation bill

  Asks House to follow suit

  Matt Dietrichson, Mar 15, 12.

  After months of squabbling, the Senate has finally passed a $109 billion transportation bill, and now pressuring the House to follow their lead.

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  Senate poised to pass transportation bill

  House continues to flounder

  Matt Dietrichson, Mar 13, 12.

  Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is urging House members to take a more bipartisan approach, which has proven successful in the Senate.

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  Tanya Snyder

  GOP still all about highways

  Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor, Mar 13, 12.

  Despite nods to transit, house GOP still all about highways

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  Nearly 200 US mayors clamoring for transportation bill

  And want transit money

  Matt Dietrichson, Mar 13, 12.

  A coalition of US mayors are urging the passage of a new transportation bill, and are warning of the dangers that will result from inaction.

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  Diverse interests advocate for passage of transportation bill

  From retail to the religious

  Matt Dietrichson, Mar 06, 12.

  An unusually wide range of industries and groups are collectively pressuring congress to pass a spending bill for transportation.

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  Chicago financing ‘bus rapid transit’

  To connect downtown

  Matt Dietrichson, Feb 23, 12.

  Chicago leaders are funneling more than $7.3 million in tax increment financing toward a “bus rapid transit” line downtown.

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  Paying for the transportation bill

  LaHood is optimistic

  Matt Dietrichson, Feb 23, 12.

  Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood believes viable funding sources exist for the hotly contested transportation bill.

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