Posts tagged Transportation Reauthorization
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Breakfast links: More pedestrians there, more cars here
Midtown Manhattan’s Broadway to go pedestrian-only: Times Square and Herald Square are some of the nation’s most crowded outdoor spaces. Diagonal Broadway jams up traffic on Sixth and Seventh Avenues, by taking away traffic signal time from the avenues. Yesterday, New York announced an innovative solution Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Many voices for transit over roads
The Times: A NYT editorial yesterday argues Obama must “give mass transit the priority it deserves and the full financial and technological help it needs and has long been denied” in the upcoming transportation bill. According to the Times, the current stimulus proposal floating around Congress would allocate $30 billion to “highways and bridges” and… Keep reading…
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Times letters reject Brooks’ highway focus
In yesterday’s column, David Brooks argued we should stimulate the economy not through tax credits or automaker bailots, but by investing in infrastructure. We should repair our failing bridges and explore new technology. Keep reading…
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Where’s O’Malley?
The AP reports that Virginia Governor Tom Keep reading…
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Stepping it up for America
Over in the other Washington, DC, the one that’s a curse on the lips of every politician running on a platform of change, advocacy groups on both sides of the transportation issue are gearing up for a fight that will determine the future shape of our settlement patterns, our future impact on the environment, and the success of our cities and towns: the mega transportation spending… Keep reading…
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Transportation Commission report dissected
Rob Goodspeed ordered a copy of the mammoth National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission report—the one with which DOT Secretary Mary Peters disagreed and from which some Administration officials removed parts. Rob has a detailed yet clear analysis of the report’s key recommendations. Keep reading…