Video: President signs the Surface Transportation Bill
The Surface Transportation Bill was signed into law at 5:32 EST. In case you missed it, here is a replay in the ‘photos & video’ menu of the White House [continue reading]
Watch live on C-SPAN: President set to sign the Surface Transportation Bill
UPDATE (2:04 p.m.): The signing will be streamed live at http://www.whitehouse.gov/live President Obama is scheduled to sign the Surface Transportation Bill at 4:55 p.m. EST (1:55 p.m. PST). The long-awaited transportation bill includes America Fast Forward, which would make it possible for localities — including Los Angeles — to accelerate [continue reading]
The art of transit
Here’s a particularly powerful photo of President Obama sitting on the bus in which civil rights activist Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat. It’s hard to imagine President Obama would be where he is today without the courage and determination of Parks and the thousands of men [continue reading]
U.S. Senate panel puts $81 million in budget for Westside Subway Extension and Regional Connector
The U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations on Thursday awarded $81 million in funding in the 2013 federal budget to two key Metro transit projects in Los Angeles, the Westside Subway Extension and the Regional Connector. “Thanks to the hard work of Senator Feinstein, today’s vote by the Senate Committee on [continue reading]
White House backs Senate version of transportation bill
We’ve been tracking the progress of the latest multi-year transportation spending bill in Congress — a bill that includes funding for Metro and the nation’s other transit agencies. The Obama Administration on Thursday backed the Senate version of the bill co-authored by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-California). As we’ve been reporting, [continue reading]
Transportation headlines, Thursday, Jan. 26
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 Headlines blog, which you can also access via email subscription or RSS feed. In Kazakhstan, A Beautiful, Futuristic New Subway System (The Atlantic Cities) From Almaty in the [continue reading]
President Obama’s infrastructure plan
Here’s the part of President Obama’s State of the Union speech Tuesday that dealt with infrastructure: Building this new energy future should be just one part of a broader agenda to repair America’s infrastructure. So much of America needs to be rebuilt. We’ve got crumbling roads and bridges; a power [continue reading]
Funding for high-speed rail eliminated in next year’s federal budget
President Obama signed a bill today authorizing transportation spending for the next fiscal year. The big news: no money was allocated for high-speed rail — which Republicans had been targeting as wasteful — while there were slight bumps upward in funds for transit projects. The obvious question is what does [continue reading]
House Republicans unveil their version of transportation spending bill and call for opening ANWR to drilling
As I mentioned in the headlines earlier, House Republicans today announced their version of a multi-year transportation funding bill — and it’s very different from the two-year bill being discussed in the Senate. Here’s the news from Metro’s government relations staff: Today, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and House Transportation [continue reading]
Bus delays possible this morning due to President’s visit
Not much info is available for security reasons, but here’s what we know, via Metro’s Twitter feed: Expect intermittent bus delays & detours this morning around Beverly Hills, Westwood, Century City & Burbank. #ObamaTraffic ^ST The L.A. Times reports: Obama will spend a packed morning in Los Angeles, leaving the [continue reading]