Federal Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill

While transportation advocates struggle in Washington to derail the priorities that have shaped transit spending for the last 50 years, it is also important to understand how federal funding is only the first part of the transit pie.

Tri-State Transportation Campaign is a non-profit policy and advocacy organization that works for a more balanced and sustainable transportation network in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut metro region. 

Over the last 15 years, our advocacy has resulted in greater investment for transit, cycling and walking projects in the region. In that time we have learned many lessons about this work, but none comes up time and time again like the importance of tackling state transportation reform.  

The good news is that as a result of the calls and emails sent by members of the TRPT campaign over the past month, the number of congressmembers co-sponsoring H.R. 2746 (Carnahan-MO) has grown. As you may recall H.R. 2746 is a marker bill that will allow more federal transit dollars to be used for the cost of operating buses and trains in the upcoming $500 billion federal surface transportation act (FSTA).