Corrigan Salerno
@corrigansalerno.bsky.social
Policy manager @t4america.bsky.social
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Our new report on the IIJA's Climate impact is out and the results are disappointing.
As many predicted, State DOTs have so far used the bill to fund more of the same bad projects, with terrible consequences.
States have to pivot hard (like MN and CO did) to change course
Our new report on the IIJA's Climate impact is out and the results are disappointing.
As many predicted, State DOTs have so far used the bill to fund more of the same bad projects, with terrible consequences.
States have to pivot hard (like MN and CO did) to change course
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California legalizes life near public transit! Governor Newsom has signed SB 79. My thoughts: humantransit.org/2025/10/cali...
California Legalizes Life Near Public Transit — Human Transit
OK, the headline is a little exaggerated, but California’s Senate Bill 79, authored by Senator Scott Wiener and just signed by Governor Newsom, is a game-changer. It prohibits most cities from forbid...
humantransit.org
October 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
California legalizes life near public transit! Governor Newsom has signed SB 79. My thoughts: humantransit.org/2025/10/cali...
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Uh, I am going to have to be convinced on these
August 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Uh, I am going to have to be convinced on these
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What’s the best way to spend $1 billion for transportation?
Our latest report shows the positive impacts of every $1 billion shifted from highways to transit and identifies key policy levers to shift transportation investments away from highway spending.
climateandcommunity.org/research/let...
Our latest report shows the positive impacts of every $1 billion shifted from highways to transit and identifies key policy levers to shift transportation investments away from highway spending.
climateandcommunity.org/research/let...
Letting People Move - Climate and Community Institute
Transportation policy represents a key tool to address both the cost of living and climate crises. In the United States, the shortcomings of today’s transportation system …
climateandcommunity.org
July 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
What’s the best way to spend $1 billion for transportation?
Our latest report shows the positive impacts of every $1 billion shifted from highways to transit and identifies key policy levers to shift transportation investments away from highway spending.
climateandcommunity.org/research/let...
Our latest report shows the positive impacts of every $1 billion shifted from highways to transit and identifies key policy levers to shift transportation investments away from highway spending.
climateandcommunity.org/research/let...
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I'm sorry but this whole thing makes me feel insane. Let's just be real: we stole basic independence from generations of kids and teenagers by intentionally making our cities deadly + impossible to travel outside a car, and now corporations are selling a worse version of it back to them at a price.
The Teens Are Taking Waymos Now
Alphabet’s self-driving car company launches what it hopes will be lucrative individual teen accounts—and maybe a whole lot of social change in the process.
www.wired.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I'm sorry but this whole thing makes me feel insane. Let's just be real: we stole basic independence from generations of kids and teenagers by intentionally making our cities deadly + impossible to travel outside a car, and now corporations are selling a worse version of it back to them at a price.
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In a truly tectonic Overton Window shift, the California Assembly just voted 63-0 to advance #AB609, a major new bill by Buffy Wicks to create a statutory exemption from CEQA for environmentally friendly infill housing.
Fantastic news for both housing and the environment!
Fantastic news for both housing and the environment!
May 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM
In a truly tectonic Overton Window shift, the California Assembly just voted 63-0 to advance #AB609, a major new bill by Buffy Wicks to create a statutory exemption from CEQA for environmentally friendly infill housing.
Fantastic news for both housing and the environment!
Fantastic news for both housing and the environment!
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Yes, you should be asking why Portland is getting a $2 billion freeway expansion when it hasn’t expanded its light rail system in years, when federal assistance is drying up, when climate change is worsening, & when 60% of Oregon counties are facing budget cuts www.opb.org/article/2025...
Construction on the project is expected to begin this summer and finish in 2034.
Pricetag for Portland’s Rose Quarter freeway project could exceed $2 billion, officials now say
Construction on the project is expected to begin this summer and finish in 2034.
www.oregonlive.com
May 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Yes, you should be asking why Portland is getting a $2 billion freeway expansion when it hasn’t expanded its light rail system in years, when federal assistance is drying up, when climate change is worsening, & when 60% of Oregon counties are facing budget cuts www.opb.org/article/2025...
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Like every other late 30-something I know, I'm thinking a lot lately about how the transportation system will shape my parents' lives as they age (which to some extent is already happening). Learned a lot from this conversation with @gregshill.com, including some surprises.
Is U.S. Transportation Policy Ready For The 'Silver Tsunami'? — Streetsblog USA
America's car-dependent communities aren't prepared for the rising proportion of seniors who can't safely drive.
usa.streetsblog.org
May 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Like every other late 30-something I know, I'm thinking a lot lately about how the transportation system will shape my parents' lives as they age (which to some extent is already happening). Learned a lot from this conversation with @gregshill.com, including some surprises.
desperately searching, hoping, wishing for this one to have been real
April 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
desperately searching, hoping, wishing for this one to have been real
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Air quality is so visibly bad with these fireworks. Seeing smoke wafted all the way to the ground level in Woodley Park. It literally smells like the little party poppers outside.
March 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Air quality is so visibly bad with these fireworks. Seeing smoke wafted all the way to the ground level in Woodley Park. It literally smells like the little party poppers outside.
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USDOT Secretary's office sent an email to DOT agencies instructing them to review competitively awarded—but not yet fully obligated—projects under Biden that include:
—Green infra
—Bike infra
—EV infra
—Project purpose to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
DOT wants to revise project scopes or cancel.
—Green infra
—Bike infra
—EV infra
—Project purpose to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
DOT wants to revise project scopes or cancel.
March 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
USDOT Secretary's office sent an email to DOT agencies instructing them to review competitively awarded—but not yet fully obligated—projects under Biden that include:
—Green infra
—Bike infra
—EV infra
—Project purpose to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
DOT wants to revise project scopes or cancel.
—Green infra
—Bike infra
—EV infra
—Project purpose to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
DOT wants to revise project scopes or cancel.
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GOP Senators are “begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated” & that admin is illegally impounding.
Sen Tuberville wants bridge $
Sen Capito wants electric school bus $
Sen Murkowski wants EPA staff
Sen Britt wants NIH $
Sen Moran wants farm subsidies
Sen Tuberville wants bridge $
Sen Capito wants electric school bus $
Sen Murkowski wants EPA staff
Sen Britt wants NIH $
Sen Moran wants farm subsidies
After ceding power of the purse, GOP lawmakers beg Trump team for funds
Republican senators find themselves in an unusual position these days: begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
GOP Senators are “begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated” & that admin is illegally impounding.
Sen Tuberville wants bridge $
Sen Capito wants electric school bus $
Sen Murkowski wants EPA staff
Sen Britt wants NIH $
Sen Moran wants farm subsidies
Sen Tuberville wants bridge $
Sen Capito wants electric school bus $
Sen Murkowski wants EPA staff
Sen Britt wants NIH $
Sen Moran wants farm subsidies
February 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Not to jinx anything that might happen this week yet, but big shifts in policy at organizations require staff to implement changes.
Otherwise, expect delays...
Otherwise, expect delays...
February 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Not to jinx anything that might happen this week yet, but big shifts in policy at organizations require staff to implement changes.
Otherwise, expect delays...
Otherwise, expect delays...
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Here's another:
smartgrowthamerica.salsalabs.org/usdot-fundin...
...but don't stop there. Call your reps on the phone. Let your local media know exactly what could be at stake for your area. Make noise about this before it's too late.
smartgrowthamerica.salsalabs.org/usdot-fundin...
...but don't stop there. Call your reps on the phone. Let your local media know exactly what could be at stake for your area. Make noise about this before it's too late.
Stop USDOT's Funding Freeze
Over $20 billion in project funding is at risk. USDOT’s new memos set a timeline for the elimination of all agency policies, funding agreements, and programs by February 18, 2025. Make your representa...
smartgrowthamerica.salsalabs.org
February 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Here's another:
smartgrowthamerica.salsalabs.org/usdot-fundin...
...but don't stop there. Call your reps on the phone. Let your local media know exactly what could be at stake for your area. Make noise about this before it's too late.
smartgrowthamerica.salsalabs.org/usdot-fundin...
...but don't stop there. Call your reps on the phone. Let your local media know exactly what could be at stake for your area. Make noise about this before it's too late.
In an hour! I'll be joining @gnd_network @4TransitJustice @americawalks @LN4S @cplusci from 7:30-8 PM ET to discuss the $20 billion+ funding freeze crisis and what you can do to ensure communities get the money they're owed.
Tune in!
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Tune in!
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Unfreeze the Funds!
Join us Thursday, February 13 from 7:30-8pm ET for a free training and action on how to stop USDOT’s illegal freezing of funds that were promised to communities across the nation. Musk’s illegitimate ...
act.greennewdealnetwork.org
February 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
In an hour! I'll be joining @gnd_network @4TransitJustice @americawalks @LN4S @cplusci from 7:30-8 PM ET to discuss the $20 billion+ funding freeze crisis and what you can do to ensure communities get the money they're owed.
Tune in!
act.greennewdealnetwork.org/signup/unfre...
Tune in!
act.greennewdealnetwork.org/signup/unfre...
EV charging is just the start. DOT should now have a list of equity and climate programs/projects to cancel. Billions could be cut across the country, destroying economic development and job creation progress.
How bad is it in your district?
www.datawrapper.de/_/j1bf5/
How bad is it in your district?
www.datawrapper.de/_/j1bf5/
Disbursements at risk from USDOT
Transportation for America's analysis of funding at risk based on policy outlined in the USDOT's newly introduced
www.datawrapper.de
February 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
EV charging is just the start. DOT should now have a list of equity and climate programs/projects to cancel. Billions could be cut across the country, destroying economic development and job creation progress.
How bad is it in your district?
www.datawrapper.de/_/j1bf5/
How bad is it in your district?
www.datawrapper.de/_/j1bf5/
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Counterpoint: he absolutely did not surrender.
Which is not to say you are powerless, or that he is unstoppable! But it *is* to say that we need to adapt our tactics when the administration ignores the rules. It's time for direct action, for local action, and a whole lot of organizing.
Which is not to say you are powerless, or that he is unstoppable! But it *is* to say that we need to adapt our tactics when the administration ignores the rules. It's time for direct action, for local action, and a whole lot of organizing.
February 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Counterpoint: he absolutely did not surrender.
Which is not to say you are powerless, or that he is unstoppable! But it *is* to say that we need to adapt our tactics when the administration ignores the rules. It's time for direct action, for local action, and a whole lot of organizing.
Which is not to say you are powerless, or that he is unstoppable! But it *is* to say that we need to adapt our tactics when the administration ignores the rules. It's time for direct action, for local action, and a whole lot of organizing.
From the “Woke Rescission” (yes really) memo:
Tomorrow: DOT compiles every funding agreement and program they dislike
Feb 18: DOT cancels, by all legal means (guess who decides what’s legal?), everything related “in any way” to climate, DEI, and environmental justice.
Tomorrow: DOT compiles every funding agreement and program they dislike
Feb 18: DOT cancels, by all legal means (guess who decides what’s legal?), everything related “in any way” to climate, DEI, and environmental justice.
"Of the approximately $21 billion of funding that could be clawed back by the Department of Transportation, almost $7 billion is directed for projects in states that voted for Trump in 2024." @corrigansalerno.bsky.social for @reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/bil...
www.reuters.com/world/us/bil...
Billions of dollars for US projects remain frozen by Trump, managers and advocates say
President Donald Trump has placed holds on tens of billions of dollars in congressionally-approved spending for projects across the U.S. that range from Iowa soybean farmers adopting greener practices to a Virginia railway expansion, a Reuters analysis found.
www.reuters.com
February 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
From the “Woke Rescission” (yes really) memo:
Tomorrow: DOT compiles every funding agreement and program they dislike
Feb 18: DOT cancels, by all legal means (guess who decides what’s legal?), everything related “in any way” to climate, DEI, and environmental justice.
Tomorrow: DOT compiles every funding agreement and program they dislike
Feb 18: DOT cancels, by all legal means (guess who decides what’s legal?), everything related “in any way” to climate, DEI, and environmental justice.
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Totally normal, as a simple matter of divine forgiveness, to put a white supremacist antisemitic kid in charge of the U.S. Treasury payments system
February 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Totally normal, as a simple matter of divine forgiveness, to put a white supremacist antisemitic kid in charge of the U.S. Treasury payments system
It was the start of a beautiful rivalry/friendship.
If it makes you feel better about the theft, I shout out your podcast every time people ask if I’ve ever met another Corrigan!
If it makes you feel better about the theft, I shout out your podcast every time people ask if I’ve ever met another Corrigan!
Well, it's between me and @corrigansalerno.bsky.social and I did threaten to fight him for ownership of the name when he was a teenager. However he's been getting me back by taking the username "corrigan" on everything ever since. Toss up.
ok, just because this is close to my heart: who's the worst person with your first name?
February 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
It was the start of a beautiful rivalry/friendship.
If it makes you feel better about the theft, I shout out your podcast every time people ask if I’ve ever met another Corrigan!
If it makes you feel better about the theft, I shout out your podcast every time people ask if I’ve ever met another Corrigan!
This was not on my bingo card.
Wow.
Wow.
Looks like the Federal Highway Administration Complete Streets page is gone
highways.dot.gov/complete-str...
highways.dot.gov/complete-str...
February 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
This was not on my bingo card.
Wow.
Wow.
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we should probably teach kids to code more just to demystify this shit. like it’s not easy, but it’s very learnable. letting people think Being Good At Computer makes you a genius polymath has been such a disaster.
Their response to "he's violating the Constitution" is really "but bro is so sick at coding."
US rule of law in shambles. Tech ideology is really that kind of caricature of itself.
US rule of law in shambles. Tech ideology is really that kind of caricature of itself.
February 6, 2025 at 5:26 AM
we should probably teach kids to code more just to demystify this shit. like it’s not easy, but it’s very learnable. letting people think Being Good At Computer makes you a genius polymath has been such a disaster.
Thanks @yfreemark.bsky.social
Be sure to check our data on how much funding could be at risk in your congressional district!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Be sure to check our data on how much funding could be at risk in your congressional district!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
February 6, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Thanks @yfreemark.bsky.social
Be sure to check our data on how much funding could be at risk in your congressional district!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Be sure to check our data on how much funding could be at risk in your congressional district!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Not a great sign when Wired says it won't name at least two fo the people Musk has installed to run the Office of Personnel Management because they may be minors www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management
Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.
www.wired.com
January 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Not a great sign when Wired says it won't name at least two fo the people Musk has installed to run the Office of Personnel Management because they may be minors www.wired.com/story/elon-m...