Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users

As Congress debates transportation bill, construction companies wait and hope

The multi-billion dollar transportation bill has run into deadlock and there's no off-ramp in sight. That has America's construction companies, which depend on transportation spending for a large part of their business, watching, reading tea leaves and lobbying heavily for the House and Senate to get their act together and get something passed. Soon.

As Congress debates transportation bill, construction companies wait and hope

Ray Lahood on Deadlocked Transportation Bill

Ray Lahood on Deadlocked Transportation Bill

Future federal transportation bills locked in partisan gridlock

Future federal transportation bills locked in partisan gridlock

Congress Stalls on Transportation Bills

Congress Stalls on Transportation Bills

New Transportation Bill Carries Controversy

New Transportation Bill Carries Controversy

GOP-backed transportation bill slashes funding for cycling, pedestrian facilities

A Republican transportation bill seeks to eliminate the $1.6 billion in federal transportation funds that has been used to add bike lanes, improve sidewalk, create curb cuts and otherwise enhance roadways to make them more friendly to cyclists and pedestrians.

GOP-backed transportation bill slashes funding for cycling, pedestrian facilities

New Transportation Bill Proposes Big Changes

The proposed legislation would encourage private companies to build toll roads alongside federal highways, cut Amtrak subsidies and pay for infrastructure with money from new oil drilling.

New Transportation Bill Proposes Big Changes

Transforming Transportation

Congressman Jim Oberstar tells Living on Earth about his new transportation bill and why getting Americans out of their cars is so vital.

Transforming Transportation
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Take the High Road

Take the High Road