Posts tagged Barack Obama
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Breakfast links: The morning after (the stimulus vote)
Counting our chickens: State and local officials have started discussing how to spend the stimulus money. Maryland’s John Porcari says they’ll prioritize repairs over new projects, which is the right choice; VDOT head Pierce Homer wants to pay for repairs and some of the delayed projects, meaning potentially more freeway widenings or new freeways. Most likely, according… Keep reading…
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DeFazio calls out Summers, introduces transit stimulus amendment
Won’t Larry Summers please just go away? He already laid the groundwork for the current financial crisis and damaged Harvard’s reputation. Now, he’s steering President Obama and the stimulus bill away from transit and other infrastructure spending and toward tax cuts. Keep reading…
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Looking under LaHood
Many advocates worry that Transportation Secretary nominee Ray LaHood doesn’t understand the link between transportation and climate change, and that perhaps Obama doesn’t either. Keep reading…
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LaHood?
Apparently retiring downstate Illinois Republican Congressman Ray LaHood will be Secretary of Transportation. Many observers were very surprised; high-speed rail advocates are worried; some bicyclists are tentatively pleased. Advocates, bloggers and journalists will have their hands full today learning all about LaHood and divining what, exactly, this means for Obama’s… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: How to get to Pennsylvania Avenue
By whistlestop railroad tour: President-elect Obama will get on a train after a rally in Philadelphia, meet Joe Biden for a rally in Wilmington, then stop in Baltimore before continuing to DC. Keep reading…
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Environmental groups identify $145B of immediate green stimulus
Does an immediate economic stimulus package have to include anti-environmental, sprawl-inducing projects like new highways or highway widenings, such as those many state DOTs are just itching to fund? Yesterday, in the discussion over Barack Obama’s proposed stimulus, commenter Alex B. wrote, Keep reading…
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Change?
On November 4, I was out in the streets cheering when CNN called the election for Obama. Change was in the air. In a matter of months, a new era would start in America—an era of growing environmental consciousness, of reinvestment in our cities, of policies for the people—instead of for corporate executives. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Progress and detours
Robocars are almost here: An autonomous VW built by Stanford managed to navigate a blockaded Eleventh Avenue in Manhattan during a demonstration, stopping at stop signs, avoiding other vehicles and pedestrians. How long until we have real autonomous vehicles on regular streets? Check out the video. Tip: Phil Lepanto. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: bikes, bikinis and boorish modernists
First bike sharing, now tricycle sharing: No, it’s not a program to teach kindergarteners to share their toys. A San Francisco bike shop launched a trike-sharing program for adult-size tricycles, which can carry a lot more cargo than bikes. North Beach residents are using them for errands like trips to the local Trader Joe’s. Tip: Ben T. Keep reading…
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“Everyone benefits if we can leave our cars”
During the campaign, Transportation For America created this pledge, which they asked candidates to sign to show their support for a new direction in transportation funding: Keep reading…