{"id":160770839,"date":"2010-02-04T18:33:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T18:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=160770839"},"modified":"2010-02-04T18:33:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T18:33:59","slug":"a-troubling-transportation-number-for-the-obama-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=160770839","title":{"rendered":"A Troubling Transportation Number for the Obama Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The second not-so-great transportation number, &#36;53 million, reflects the total spending on pollution-reducing transit grants that the White House included in its <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2010\/02\/01\/white-house-budget-includes-530m-for-local-sustainability-1b-for-hsr\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">budget proposal <\/a>for fiscal year 2011. <\/p>\n<p>The administration hopes to steer nearly 10 times that amount, or nearly &#36;530 million, to its new three-agency partnership for sustainable communities. Still, the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) pulled out the &#36;53 million number today to note that the White House had proposed &#36;22 million <em>more<\/em> for the same type of transit grants last year (and ended up spending <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2009\/09\/21\/stimulus-grants-for-green-transpo\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#36;100 million<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>From the EESI&#8217;s budget statement (emphasis theirs):<\/p>\n<p> <span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>A focus on livability is expected to have benefits for air quality,<br \/>\npublic health, energy savings, and greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction. The<br \/>\nrest of the proposed budget, however, represents very little change in<br \/>\nhow these issues and public goals are addressed. A special fund to help<br \/>\nreduce GHG emissions within FTA, in fact, saw a significant <strong>decrease from &#36;75 million to &#36;53 million<\/strong>. <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2010\/02\/04\/two-troubling-transportation-numbers-for-the-obama-administration\/\">https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2010\/02\/04\/two-troubling-transportation-numbers-for-the-obama-administration\/<\/a>oldId.20100204183359583<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; The second not-so-great transportation number, &#36;53 million, reflects the total spending on pollution-reducing transit grants that the White House included in its budget proposal for fiscal year 2011. The administration hopes to steer nearly 10 times that amount, or nearly &#36;530 million, to its new three-agency partnership for sustainable communities. Still, the Environmental and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=160770839\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Troubling Transportation Number for the Obama Administration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160770839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160770839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160770839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160770839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160770839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160770839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160770839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}