The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC), the Safe Routes Partnership and the National Center for Safe Routes to School are p

By Michelle Lieberman, Molly O’Reilly and Katharine Bierce

Late in the evening of June 9, as part of the House consideration of the transportation appropriations bill, Rep.

This guest blog post was written by our research adviser, Christina Galardi.

First, let’s start with a pop quiz to get your brain working - I’ll give the answers at the end.

A new information brief, issued today by the National Center for Safe Routes to School and written by the Safe Routes Partnership, demonstrates how regional transportation planning authorities (or MPOs) can advance Safe Routes to School priorities using the relatively new Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP).

The House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee has set its consideration of the transportation bill for Thursday, October 22. This is coming in just under the wire, as the current transportation law expires at the end of October.  Congress will still have to do an extension of current law to allow the House to complete its work and then come to agreement with the Senate -- hopefully by mid-December.  (Update 10/22/15:  The committee completed consideration of the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act today.  An amendment offered by Reps.