LaHood Fends Off Lawmakers On Fuel Taxes (The Journal of Commerce Online)
DOT secretary says there may not be “the courage” in Congress to take on issue
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood came under fire Tuesday from House lawmakers over infrastructure financing, taking heat from those for and against raising taxes to pay for highway and transit […]
LaHood Says No Fuel Tax Increase Needed for Transport (The Journal of Commerce Online)
Highway funding to come from tolls, Obama’s proposed infrastructure fund
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said a combination of current-level gas tax receipts, road and bridge tolling and President Obama’s proposed infrastructure fund could offer a way to fund a long-term federal infrastructure […]
New Political Realities May Sidetrack the Transportation Reauthorization (Innovation News Briefs)
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Over the past eight months the U.S. Department of Transportation has been conducting a series of “listening sessions” around the country to solicit new ideas from stakeholders and interested citizens for the next multi-year surface transportation bill. The sixth and final session on the national […]
Oberstar stymied on transit bill (Politico)
It was supposed to be a career-defining moment for Rep. James Oberstar (D-Minn.). He finally held the gavel of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, after four decades of waiting and had a like-minded president in office to help enact his sweeping vision for highways and public works.
But Oberstar […]
LaHood: Cooperation key to winning transportation funds (Winston Salem Journal)
Triad area planners need to act with a more unified voice if they expect to successfully compete for limited federal transportation funds, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said during an appearance in Greensboro Wednesday.
LaHood said people in the various planning organizations in the Triad […]
What we know about bike infrastructure: people want it (Fast Lane Blog by USDOT Sec. LaHood)
We know that 90 percent of the people are not going to be cycling to work or around town. But that opportunity and that kind of alternative is something people have said they want.
They said it in a recent study […]
Transportation Secretary LaHood Tells Mayors More Federal Support Coming (US Conf of Mayors)
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told the mayors during the January 21 Plenary of The U.S. Conference of Mayors Winter Meeting that last year, he traveled to 66 cities and saw “some amazing projects that are transforming sprawling, struggling 20th century […]
US Transportation Secretary Urges Swift Passage Of Jobs Plan (Down Jones Newswires)
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood called Thursday for “swift passage” of a jobs-creation package in Congress to bring down double-digit unemployment figures.
LaHood said he met in the morning with Sen. Richard Durbin (D., Ill.), the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, to press for the package to […]
Main Street Chases Transportation Money (The Center for Public Integrity)
Last September, city fathers in Dubuque, Iowa, lured three members of the White House cabinet to the banks of the Mississippi River on the same day they welcomed officials from one the world’s biggest corporations, IBM. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson […]
Colorado pols woo federal transportation chief and his department’s dollars (Denver Post)
Colorado politicians were very nice to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on his visit Friday to Denver.
With good reason.
LaHood’s department is weighing whether to funnel more than $1.5 billion from a variety of federal programs to transportation projects around the state.
The Regional Transportation District […]
