Here’s the email from Metro CEO Art Leahy, sent yesterday to agency staffers: Tomorrow, the full House Committee on Appropriations is scheduled to set its spending levels for government programs for the balance of Fiscal Year 2011. It is expected that the Chairman of the Committee, Harold Rogers (R-KY), will [continue reading]
With Congress looking at ways to cut federal spending, it’s not surprising that one focus has been to cut back on transportation spending, as we posted last week. The House went ahead yesterday and did, in fact, approve a rule that could lead to cuts. It remains to be seen [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. Driver gets 90 days in jail for hit-and-run involving bicyclist (L.A. Times) It’s been almost a year since Ed Magos was struck [continue reading]
That’s the question asked by the L.A. Times in a strong weekend story by reporters Richard Simon and Dan Weikel. Republicans won the majority in the House of Representatives in last week’s elections and are vowing to cut spending — which could impact 30/10’s prospects of becoming law. The 30/10 [continue reading]
There was some encouraging news on the 30/10 Initiative from Washington D.C. today. In testimony submitted to the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Environment and Public Works, a key U.S. Department of Transportation official made it clear that in the view of the federal government, one key benefit of 30/10 is [continue reading]
The nonprofit group Calpirg held a small rally this morning at the Wilshire/Western subway and bus stop to support Metro’s 30/10 Initiative. Members of the group also produced a list of 320 local businesses that support 30/10. Attentive Source readers can say it in their sleep: the 30/10 plan seeks [continue reading]
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer co-hosted a ’roundtable’ discussion on the 30/10 Initiative this afternoon at City Hall in downtown L.A. The point: talk about progress on the effort to secure federal loans and financing to build 12 Measure R transit projects in the next [continue reading]
[polldaddy poll=3354377] Thursday is “Dump the Pump Day,” with motorists encouraged to take mass transit once a week as a way or join a carpool or vanpool to save some coin and do something nice for the air. Sounds good. Of course, it would also be good if there were [continue reading]
Attentive readers of The Source know what’s at stake: if the 30/10 Initiative gets the go ahead from Congress, a dozen Measure R transit projects funded by the Measure R sales tax increase could be built in the next decade instead of the next 30 years. Let me put it [continue reading]
The following item appeared in Metro CEO Art Leahy’s daily email to staff. I think it’s always good to know who-is-asking-for-what in Washington and, thus, I wanted to share the item with you: Members of Congress Submit Appropriations Requests For Fiscal Year 2011 A number of Members of Congress from [continue reading]
