Posts tagged Budget
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Nadler amendment heading to the floor
The House Rules committee cleared Rep. Jerry Nadler’s amendment to add $3 billion in transit funding to the stimulus. It’ll proceed to the House floor for an up-or-down vote. According to Streetsblog, the floor vote might happen as early as noon today. Keep reading…
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Morning coffee stimulus: and now there was one (amendment)
DeFazio amendment out: T4A reports that the DeFazio amendment was “required to be withdrawn” for parliamentary reasons. No real word on what those reasons were, but apparently the Rules Committee heard your voices loud and clear. Keep reading…
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DeFazio calls out Summers, introduces transit stimulus amendment
Won’t Larry Summers please just go away? He already laid the groundwork for the current financial crisis and damaged Harvard’s reputation. Now, he’s steering President Obama and the stimulus bill away from transit and other infrastructure spending and toward tax cuts. Keep reading…
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Over four times the people and no traffic
On a typical weekday, 400,000 commuters enter downtown DC. On Tuesday, 1.8 million people did. Yet there’s heavy traffic every rush hour in and out of DC, just to move a small fraction of the people we moved on Tuesday. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Stimulating our irritation
Reinvigorate H Street with a parking lot? Owners of four old row buildings next to the Atlas Theater want to tear them down to build a surface parking lot. ANC 6a is not pleased. There’s a landmark nomination pending, and if the buildings are landmarked, HPRB will almost surely put the kibosh on the raze. But must we landmark buildings to keep them from turning into parking lots? Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Up is down and it’s all in your head
Neighbors appeal for LESS parking? Can you believe it could ever happen? It’s not in DC, but San Francisco, where the Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association appealed a recent Planning Board decision allowing a project with 27 spaces for 36 units. Zoning only allows 18 units (one per two units), but the Planning Board can grant an exception. When they did, the neighborhood association… Keep reading…
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Stimulus draft released; $30B for highways vs. $10B for transit
House Democrats have released a draft of the federal stimulus package. Among the $275 billion in spending is $30 billion for highways and $10 billion for transit. That’s still way too much highway money, but at least it’s a big small step up from the existing status quo which gave only 3% of federal money Keep reading…
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Dinner links: hungry for good architecture, stimulus money
Not so historic: Prince of Petworth posts a very non-historic building in Capitol Hill. Good reason to have historic preservation laws, or a nice addition of variety to the block? Keep reading…
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Gotta cut bus service? Let’s combine and simplify routes
Metro officials say they will need to cut $87 million worth of service to close their budget gap for the next year. Some of that is certain to come from Metrobus service. We could simply cut service, making many routes even more inconvenient than they are today. Or, we could rework and simplify the bus network. Keep reading…
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Do more riders cost Metro more?
Metro is facing a $176 million budget shortfall, for 13% of their total. To avoid a fare hike, WMATA officials are planning major budget cuts and an estimated $87 million in service cuts. They haven’t yet decided which service to recommend cutting. The Examiner’s Kytja Weir asked WMATA board member Peter Benjamin why Metro doesn’t have more money thanks to its… Keep reading…