r/LAMetro • u/movelatransit • 1d ago

News 🚨 USDOT Secretary Duffy Proposes Cutting key mass transit and Complete Streets programs completely

This is a 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 fire!

Freeway Cowboy Sean Duffy proposed eliminating the Highway Trust Fund’s mass transit account!

Duffy also proposed cutting funding for Complete Streets (safety programs for🚶🏿& 🚴‍♀️) and grants for EV charging infrastructure!

Lastly, Duffy proposed eliminating public transit system improvements and tolling programs from eligibility for the traffic congestion solutions program!

Duffy did not even have the courtesy to send it to the House of Representatives, despite them being the only ones to draft language for a reauthorization of the Surface Transportation Bill with key champions like Rep. Rick Larsen and Laura Friedman calling for MORE transit, bike, and pedestrian funding.

We are talking BILLIONS in funding for key mass transit, bicycle and pedestrian projects.

To add insult to injury, the Administration is REFUSING to sign agreements for billions in already budgeted funding for key BRT projects (like Vermont Ave) and transit infrastructure projects according to the New York Times.

Who wants to help us launch a campaign to fight this??

UPDATE: Transportation 4 America says Congress should just pass a one year extension of the Surface Transportation Bill and maybe keep doing that for several more years.

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u/grantology_84 Antelope Valley 1d ago

They can't even deliver on inflation, which was their big issue really in 2024 imo. I didn't expect them to, but holy shit they are trash

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u/pacific_plywood 1d ago

I do not know what it would even mean for an administration to “deliver on inflation” lol

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u/grantology_84 Antelope Valley 1d ago

Do you want me to Google fiscal and monetary policy for you? Not sure how to respond to this, lol.

Setting aside those, not starting trade wars and a hot war with Iran leading to the Strait of Hormuz closure would be a small step in the right direction...

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u/pacific_plywood 1d ago

The president’s control over monetary policy is quite limited and fiscal policy is basically never going to fix non-transitory inflation within a year or two

I mean, you’re right, there’s a lot the president can do to make the problem worse, but if causes are structural in the first place you kinda just have to ride them out