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Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users

As Congress debates transportation bill, construction companies wait and hope

Global Politics

The multi-billion dollar transportation bill has run into deadlock and there’s no off-ramp in sight. That has America’s construction companies, which depend on transportation spending for a large part of their business, watching, reading tea leaves and lobbying heavily for the House and Senate to get their act together and get something passed. Soon.

Future federal transportation bills locked in partisan gridlock

Global Politics

GOP-backed transportation bill slashes funding for cycling, pedestrian facilities

Environment

Ray Lahood on Deadlocked Transportation Bill

Development & Education

Congress Stalls on Transportation Bills

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New Transportation Bill Carries Controversy

Development & Education

The Senate finance committee approved a $9.6 billion package of funding offsets for transportation as part of the “The Highway Investment, Job Creation, and Economic Growth Act of 2012.” Designed to cover gaps in The Highway Trust Fund, an infrastructure support project that traditionally gathered funds from the federal gas tax, this new transportation bill […]

New Transportation Bill Proposes Big Changes

The proposed legislation would encourage private companies to build toll roads alongside federal highways, cut Amtrak subsidies and pay for infrastructure with money from new oil drilling.

Transforming Transportation

Congressman Jim Oberstar tells Living on Earth about his new transportation bill and why getting Americans out of their cars is so vital.

The World

Take the High Road

Congress is steamrolling opposition to its big-spending transportation bill that pours hundreds of billions of dollars into new highways. But a growing group of critics says that’s the wrong route to solving our transportation problems. Jeff Young reports from Washington.

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