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March 30: American Highway Users Alliance, IHS Global Insight Release Study on Economic Impact of Snowstorms from American Highway Users Alliance Press Release
- "The Highway Users study illustrates an important point: disruptions in the nation's transportation network are a cost to the economy," said Janet Kavinoky, Director of Transportation Infrastructure at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "In addition to preparing for major events, it is time for Congress to pass comprehensive, fully-funded highway and transit legislation that will address the daily drains on economic productivity that add up to big losses by maintaining, modernizing and expanding the surface transportation network."
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March 29: Boxer Wants TIGER to Roar in Next Highway Bill from Energy and Environment Daily
- A widely popular transportation program created by last year's stimulus package could see new life in the next multi-year highway bill. Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said yesterday that she wants to include a provision similar to the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery, or TIGER, program in the bill her panel is drafting.
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March 29: Winging It: Transportation funding bridges political divide from The Philadelphia Inquirer
- After watching months of rancorous debate over the health-care overhaul in Washington, it may come as a surprise to learn what Democrats and Republicans alike are thinking these days about spending money on transportation. That's pretty logical when you think about it. Every community, large or small, must have local streets and major highways. Most of them clamor as well for a modern airport and better rail service to move people and goods...Few members of Congress are so parsimonious with taxpayers' money that they will vote against highway construction or an increase in Amtrak service in their district.
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March 29: ‘A Dozen or So' Senators Delay Passage of Oberstar's Highway Funding Fix from Streetsblog Capitol Hill
- A contentious congressional dispute over $932 million in transportation funding remains unresolved this week after the Senate approved a one-month extension of federal aviation law rather than a three-month version of the bill that included a fix to the provision at issue. House transportation committee chairman Jim Oberstar (D-MN) had added language to the three-month aviation measure redistributing the $932 million based on existing highway funding formulas -- rather than giving 58 percent of the money to four states by extending project earmarks, as would occur under the jobs bill that President Obama signed 10 days ago.
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March 25: Boxer Aims to Put TIGER-Type Program in Next Federal Transport Bill from Streetsblog Capitol Hill
- During an otherwise-abbreviated hearing yesterday, Senate environment committee chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) joined the chorus of praise for the stimulus law's TIGER program, declaring her intention to add a version of the competitive infrastructure grants to the next long-term federal transportation bill. "People at home really think they're very good," Boxer said of the TIGER grants, seeking advice from deputy U.S. DOT secretary John Porcari on how to write the program into her forthcoming six-year transportation legislation.
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