http://www.routefifty.com/2016/02/bold-transportation-plan-urban-america-dead-arrival/125858/
In that sense it’s truer to the DOT’s 30-year “Beyond Traffic” <http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/02/a-30-year-plan-for-us-transportation-summed-up-by-one-word-choice/385111/> vision that hopes to pivot away from car-first planning toward more mobility choices. Some of the raw numbers: Public transit funding would nearly double under this budget, from $11.8 billion in fiscal 2016 to just short of $20 billion. TIGER grants that jumpstart so many metro area projects would rise from $500 million to $1.25 billion. Specific capital projects that gain mention for funding starts include L.A.’s westside subway extension ($125 million), Honolulu’s driverless train corridor <http://www.citylab.com/tech/2014/09/honolulu-is-building-americas-first-fully-driverless-transit-system/380292/> ($244 million), and Albuquerque’s gold-standard BRT project ($69 million). High-speed rail gets back <http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/09/the-unbreakable-us-high-speed-rail-system/406927/> on the federal wish list at $7 billion. Among the plan’s boldest elements is its empowerment of metropolitan planning organizations. MPOs currently craft the long-term plans for urban regions but lack the direct funding might of state DOTs, which often remain locked in a road-building mindset <http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/11/californias-dot-admits-that-more-roads-mean-more-traffic/415245/> left over from the interstate era. The new budget calls for MPOs to receive billions in direct funding to make their own decisions—a reasonable charge given that traffic and transport-related climate impacts tend to emerge at a regional level <http://www.citylab.com/work/2014/03/when-traffic-congestion-both-great-thing-and-terrible-thing/8534/> as powerfully as the local one. ... DOT budget as a whole received a similar greeting from Speaker Paul Ryan, who called it <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/10/us/politics/obama-budget-cybersecurity-congress.html> “a progressive manual for growing the federal government at the expense of hard-working Americans,” -- a Andy Bach, [email protected] 608 658-1890 cell 608 261-5738 wk
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