Transportation for America

Sixty-seven Congress nembers to feds: Measure the movement of people, not...

The federal government hands states about $40 billion a year for transportation—money they can basically spend however they want. The result in many places is a lot...

Report lists a short-and-sweet transportation to-do list for the next president

How can the next president improve American transportation policy? Without wading into the spectacle that is the election, Beth Osborne, a former top official at the United...

Support from mayors puts TIGER in line for slight funding boost

There’s good news out of the Senate committee responsible for doling out transportation funds. Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee okayed a small increase in TIGER...

Transportation for America: Tell the feds not to turn city streets...

Will the Obama administration prod state DOTs to abandon the destructive practice of widening roads and highways, or will it further entrench policies that...

Report: Five techniques that guide the best regional planning agencies

“Metropolitan Planning Organization” is the wonky name for an obscure but oh-so-important breed of public agency—the regional planning bodies charged with distributing federal transportation...