Posts tagged Budget
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Oh, right, the environment
Because this is an important issue, I’m splitting the stimulus section out of the lunch links. See the comments there for previous comments on the stimulus. Keep reading…
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Metro: Inaugural champion and economic casualty?
by Chris Zimmerman Keep reading…
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Metrobus performance 2008: Upgrade the X2, cut the 24T
I recently received the Metrobus Performance Report for 2008. You can see the main sheet in PDF or the entire collection in Excel. As you’d expect, worst performers include a lot of the same lines as in 2007. Here they are for 2008: Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Barbaras behaving badly, and other Capitol drama
Bond(age) and Crap(o): Senator Christopher Bond (R-MO) plans to introduce two more amendments to strip transit funding from the stimulus and give it to highways. One would eliminate the high-speed rail corridor program entirely. The other, cosponsored by Senators Boxer (yes, Boxer again), Baucus, Cochran, Voinovich, Bayh, Brownback and Crapo, would cut all the money in the “supplementary… Keep reading…
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Boxer to ask for $50 billion more for highways
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is ready to throw in the towel on America’s future. Friends of the Earth has just learned that she and global warming denier James Inhofe (R-OK) will introduce an amendment to add $50 billion in highway-only funding to the Senate’s version of the stimulus. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Better commutes for all
Open data stimulates innovation: We’ve pointed out that if WMATA releases schedule data for Google Transit, not only would we then be able to use Google Transit, but software developers could use the data for who knows what creative purpose. Trainlogic used commuter rail schedules from Boston, New York (Long Island Rail Road and New Jersey Transit), Philadelphia and Chicago… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cuts and losses
Chopping the point: Clark Realty is not going to develop Poplar Point. Clark could no longer afford to do the whole project amid the bad economic climate, and DC decided to end the partnership rather than pay a portion of the cost. The city will move forward with the land transfer and EIS for now, prepare the land itself, and then re-bid the development. DC United and the District have stopped… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The morning after (the stimulus vote)
Counting our chickens: State and local officials have started discussing how to spend the stimulus money. Maryland’s John Porcari says they’ll prioritize repairs over new projects, which is the right choice; VDOT head Pierce Homer wants to pay for repairs and some of the delayed projects, meaning potentially more freeway widenings or new freeways. Most likely, according… Keep reading…
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Nadler transit amendment passes on voice vote
The House just approved Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY)‘s amendment to add $3 billion in transit capital funding to the stimulus. They approved it on a voice vote instead of a roll call. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: many ways to be greater
Better architecture through zoning: New York’s Zoning Act of 1919 directly begat the “iconic ziggurat” style prewar skyscrapers. That law required a specific envelope to preserve light and air, and those shapes, it turns out, maximize the buildable square footage. Too bad they later replaced that zoning rule with a basic Floor Area Ratio one that encouraged… Keep reading…