Good Things to Come: USDOT Funds Projects That Will Meaningfully Improve People’s Lives
Corinne Kisner, Executive Director of NACTO, issued the following statement in response to USDOT’s award of nearly $1 billion in RAISE grants.
Good Things to Come: USDOT Funds Projects That Will Meaningfully Improve People’s Lives
Good Things to Come: USDOT Funds Projects That Will Meaningfully Improve People’s Lives
Directing this unprecedented funding to the right projects could improve everyday life for millions of people Corinne Kisner, Executive Director of NACTO, issued the following statement in response to President Biden signing the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law: Today, President Biden signed into law a $1.2 trillion dollar opportunity to directly address America’s…
Good Things to Come: USDOT Funds Projects That Will Meaningfully Improve People’s Lives
Success hinges on how funding is implemented at the state and federal level Corinne Kisner, Executive Director of NACTO, issued the following statement in response to the House’s passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: Late last evening, the House voted to advance the long-awaited Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, granting the U.S. new,…
Good Things to Come: USDOT Funds Projects That Will Meaningfully Improve People’s Lives
Corinne Kisner, Executive Director of the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), today issued the following statement in response to USDOT data showing a dramatic jump in American traffic fatalities and Transportation Secretary Buttigieg’s pledge to implement a Safe Systems Approach to traffic safety: America’s cities applaud Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for plainly calling…
Good Things to Come: USDOT Funds Projects That Will Meaningfully Improve People’s Lives
As cities locked down over spring 2020, people took to their people-powered wheels. From skyrocketing private bike sales (and the ascendance of e-bikes) to record-breaking ridership on bike share systems, last year’s boom showed the essential role bikes, scooters, and other forms of micromobility play in keeping people—and cities—moving. It also highlighted the need for…
Good Things to Come: USDOT Funds Projects That Will Meaningfully Improve People’s Lives
While traffic safety continues to deteriorate across the US, California took action with three recently-passed laws that will begin to tackle unsafe speeds, make transit faster and more reliable, and provide safer places for people with open and slow streets. Safer Speed Limits in the Country’s Largest State In a major win for safety and…
Good Things to Come: USDOT Funds Projects That Will Meaningfully Improve People’s Lives
Corinne Kisner, Executive Director, and Janette Sadik-Khan, Chair of the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), today issued the following statement in response to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s advancement of the Build Back Better Act: NACTO strongly supports the House’s forward-thinking proposals that would strengthen the infrastructure bill and squarely address the…
Good Things to Come: USDOT Funds Projects That Will Meaningfully Improve People’s Lives
Board Includes Visionary Leaders from Philadelphia, Houston, Austin, Chicago and Oakland Today, the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), an association of 91 cities and transit agencies across North America, announced Mike Carroll, Deputy Managing Director of the Philadelphia Office of Transportation and Infrastructure Systems (oTIS), as the board’s President, and Veronica O. Davis,…
Good Things to Come: USDOT Funds Projects That Will Meaningfully Improve People’s Lives
Corinne Kisner, Executive Director, and Janette Sadik-Khan, Chair of the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), today issued the following statement in response to the Senate’s passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA): Even as the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that our planet is heading toward an increasingly uninhabitable…
Good Things to Come: USDOT Funds Projects That Will Meaningfully Improve People’s Lives
Or How to Improve the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework for Good Policy, Not Politics Negotiations over the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework (BIF) are advancing, and we must ensure that city voices are part of the final deal. As it stands, the BIF would largely continue the failed policies that make American transportation unsafe, unsustainable, and inequitable. It…