Transportation for America
T4 America is a national coalition advocating for a 21st Century transportation system for America.

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This year's transportation bill is our country's best chance to create a system where cyclists and pedestrians are safe, trains are faster and run cleaner, public transportation is widely available and efficient, roads and bridges are in good repair, and Americans everywhere benefit from a smarter network of transportation alternatives. Make sure your representatives and senators hear your voice—and the voices of thousands of regular Americans—calling out for big, bold change.

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Transportation for America

Transportation for America Want to help end tragedies like the 76,000 Americans killed while walking or crossing a street over the last 15 years? Send a message to Congress and tell them to support the Active Community Transportation Act today to help make walking and biking safer and more attractive across the country.

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In the last 15 years, 76,000 Americans have been killed by while walking or crossing a street – help could be on the way from Rep. Earl Blumenauer.
Mon at 1:03pm · Comment ·
Kat Redlich
Kat Redlich
Done and done.
Mon at 1:19pm
Heather Morgen Ward

Heather Morgen Ward DEAR TFA ---- I CENSORED MY MESSAGE FOR YOU AND THE KIDS XOXO *ONE*

Mon at 9:01am · Comment · · Report
Heather Morgen Ward
Mon at 9:02am
Anthony Noody

Anthony Noody today is St. Patrick's Day celebration in Hoboken, NJ... another reason to remind people transit's role in helping to prevent drunk driving (something hardly ever addressed in transit advocacy).

March 6 at 8:17am · Comment · · Report
Heather Morgen Ward
Heather Morgen Ward
:P sorry i really never thought people who weren't old enough to be drinking or understand flexing their basic 1st amendment rights would be on a site like this.... I'm glad we can agree to agree. Thank You TFA I have learned so much already today on this internet tool ;) xo *ONE LOVE*
Mon at 9:29am
Nancy Potoczak Miller
Nancy Potoczak Miller
Anthony, I have always wondered about this. People were trapped between on onslaught of advertisement to drink and be merry, an addiciting thing to do and then not have much choice about how to get back home...and then when tragedy does occur, the drinker was the criminal. What about the alcohol and transportation industries?
Yesterday at 3:44am
Anthony Noody

Anthony Noody The NE rail corridor is by far the most obvious one as far as population density, economic and political importance of various institutions, and the existence of already extensive and widely used transit systems. The last point is particularly key and often neglected (it is much easier to convince people to take rail i...f their is adequate transit upon their arrival). BTW - about 17% of the US population, and about 25% of the nation's GDP is within the 500 mile long NE Megalopolis (only about 2% of the nations land area).

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March 5 at 4:48pm · Comment · · Report
Anthony Noody
Anthony Noody
Isn't this a no-brainer that this should be a priority? I am not against other lines at all, and would love a national network... but shouldn't the NE corridor be the centerpiece of a TRUE high speed network.
March 5 at 4:48pm
Anthony Noody
March 5 at 4:49pm
Anita Wilburn

Anita Wilburn where are the cities in america with the best public transportation?

March 5 at 3:06pm · Comment · · Report
Doug Goodall
Doug Goodall
I spent a number of years transporting vehicles around the country so I had plenty of opportunities to use public transit. My favorite transit systems were Boston, New York City, Chicago, San Fransisco, Philadelphia and Washington DC/Baltimore. It does seem to me like these systems haven't grown with the cities like they needed to, the exception being New York City.
Mon at 12:04pm
Anita Wilburn
Anita Wilburn
thanks for the answers i was in the outskirts of los angeles for years and I just came back to Inidana near Chicago, I am glad to hear that Chicago is up there.
Yesterday at 9:59am
Transportation for America

Transportation for America Unfortunately, this story is all too common all across the country — but Atlanta's crisis with transit is shocking. Half of all bus routes could be canceled, 12-30 min. waits for trains, and 25-30% of all service cut. Their deficit represents nearly a third of their operating budget. This for the agency with the lowest... cost per-passenger-mile cost of any heavy rail system in the country.

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Transit riders in Metro Atlanta will soon require a new system map to find their way because the current map is about to be ancient history, a document fit for use only by archivists and history buffs. ...
March 5 at 12:55pm · Comment ·
Wednesday Addams
Wednesday Addams
Sacramento is also facing service cuts. Our so-called governor is doing his best to, ahem, "terminate" public transit.
March 5 at 7:05pm
Transportation for America
Transportation for America
Anthony, we just got info for NJ Transit via a post from our partners at Tr-State Transportation Campaign. It'll be on the next version of our transit cuts map, coming out soon. We're working on it now.

I left this out of the post, but slightly less than 50% of MARTA's overall ridership describes themselves as "transit dependent." i.e., those impacted the most.
March 6 at 6:40am
Deboroah Miller

Deboroah Miller Important issue for all americans!

March 1 at 7:32am · Comment · · Report
Transportation for America

Transportation for America Money in Senate jobs bill for keeping transit systems running = $0. Tell Sen. Reid that we're counting on him to do better in the next installment. Millions depend on these systems everyday for their livelihood.

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Transit agencies around the country are facing tough choices - from massive layoffs to reduced service and fare hikes, everything is on the table. Unfortunately, the latest jobs bill won't do anything to help the situation. ...
February 26 at 8:42am · Comment ·
Ray Fill

Ray Fill Has anyone brought up Wing in Ground Effect or the new Hybrid Airships for transportation needs? They don't require as much infrastructure to lay down as rail even.

February 17 at 9:35pm · Comment · · Report
Transportation for America

Transportation for America DOT announced the winners of their competitive TIGER grants this morning. Winners include projects to convert highways to boulevards, create livable and complete streets, support streetcars and light rail projects, promote innovative highway funding and the building of multimodal bridges. T4's Mayor Smith notes that “t...he sheer popularity of this ground-breaking approach is testament to how many states and localities are struggling to build innovative projects that simply don’t happen under the pre-existing transportation program.”

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The Obama Department of Transportation today broke historic ground in unveiling projects chosen in a first-ever program to award federal dollars on a competitive basis to innovative projects that address economic, environmental and travel issues at once.
February 17 at 8:43am · Comment ·
Transportation for America

Transportation for America Check out this terrific short video of Mayor John Robert Smith, the co-chair of T4 America and former mayor of Meridian, Miss., explain his very personal reasons for leaving his hometown and moving to DC to be a part of this movement for smarter, safer, faster transportation for all.

February 12 at 1:27pm · Comment ·
Transportation for America
Transportation for America
Rustin, to answer your first question, I'd at least pause the video and let it load all the way to the end before trying to play it. It might be a bandwidth issue, and that will solve it. Youtube doesn't use a codec per se, they convert the video to Flash video, which uses the flash player built in to whatever browser you're using. I think Flash 10... See More is the newest version, but it'll default back to 9 or 8 if that's what you have.

Mayor Smith talks aplenty about transportation issues in smaller towns— this just wasn't the video where he does it. We'll have at least one clip of him along those lines to post sometime soon.
February 13 at 4:23pm
Rustin H. Wright
Rustin H. Wright
Re the video, nope, I always leave things to finish loading before I play them and checked into this a while back anyway and nothing I do makes current Youtube vidoes play correwctly on my dual 500 MHz G4. It is a compatability issue. I'm pretty sure of that. And I just downloaded the latest Flash version a few weeks back. No luck.

As for small towns, then I guess that I'll just have to wait and see what's in those videos. I'll be curious to see what he says.
February 13 at 9:19pm
Mary Vogel

Mary Vogel I'm creating a link to T4A in my next blog article for Sustainable Industries where I suggest that the next federal transporation bill needs to fund sustainable stormwater management in the largest part of our public realm--the streets. I hope T4A will support this effort.

February 8 at 11:14am · Comment · · Report
Wayne Senville

Wayne Senville posted a short report on our PlannersWeb blog on Saturday (our primary audience includes citizen and professional planners)

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It was really quite remarkable. After nearly half a century of ignoring rail's potential, the nation is finally making a major investment in developing high-speed rail corridors. The confluence of: the ...
Transportation for America

Transportation for America Mayor John Robert Smith, former mayor of Meridian, Miss., has been hard at work on improving rail travel in the south and across the country for several decades now. Here's his response to Obama's mention of high speed rail in the State of the Union and yesterday's grants.

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Hearing President Obama call high-speed rail “the infrastructure of tomorrow” gave me great hope.Very rarely has transportation investment made the final cut in a presidential State of the Union address. ...
January 29 at 12:20pm · Comment ·