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The Republican fiscal year 2012 budget would mean the loss of over a billion dollars in transportation funding for the region, and tens of thousands of jobs lost, according to an analysis by Congressional Democrats and the Federal Highway Administration. Congress returned to work this week just in time for a new round [...] Amtrak President and CEO Joe Boardman testified before the House Appropriations Committee last week that with ridership growing more than 36% since 2000, the national passenger railroad company is on pace to break its annual ridership record of 28.7 million passengers, which was set last year. Ridership has not only increased on all three [...] The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge's repair needs go beyond the corrosion pictured here. Albany elected officials say they’ve wrapped up a budget deal ahead of schedule, a major accomplishment that will hopefully move the state closer to fiscal health. But they’ll have no time to rest as the state’s infrastructure crisis comes ever closer. [...] House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chair John Mica will visit Rochester and Cortland on Thursday as part of the field hearings and listening sessions being held around the country by the Committee on the next federal transportation bill. While the hearings are open to the public, testimony is via invitation only. Members of the public [...] Mica. On Tuesday, House Transportation Committee Chair John Mica told transit officials at the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA) annual legislative conference that while he understood the needs of transit riders, he will not support increased transit funding in the next federal transportation bill. As the Wall Street Journal reports, in an interview [...] Early last week, the House of Representatives approved a spending bill that will cut more than $60 billion from the federal budget for the remainder of fiscal year 2011. The open amendment process, sanctioned by House majority leaders, allowed lawmakers from both sides of the aisle to offer both spending and cutting amendments to [...] Tri-State's Ya-Ting Liu discusses the funding problems affecting transit agencies in upstate New York. With the public more or less shut out of a planned Congressional forum on the next federal transportation bill in Rochester, NY, advocates stepped in, putting on a “Transportation Equity Town Hall” last Thursday to discuss the transportation challenges, [...] (Click to download a flyer with more information.) On February 17, the New York State Transportation Equity Alliance (NYSTEA) will hold a transportation equity town hall in Rochester, in advance of House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica and Rep. Tom Reed’s transportation bill “field hearing” the following day. Since details surrounding Chairman [...] Members of the Republican Study Committee recently unveiled the Spending Reduction Act of 2011 that reduces federal spending by $2.5 trillion over ten years, starting with rolling back all non-defense spending to fiscal year 2008 levels. As Streetsblog Capitol Hill reported earlier this week, the proposed cuts to transportation are deep and would translate [...] A December study from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds that, well, there’s not much government accountability when it comes to how states spend federal transportation funds. Despite the existence of a federally mandated transportation planning process, the federal government offers no clear goals for state spending and there’s no clear way of knowing [...] |
 
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