Big Three Ad Campaign Fails to Win Over Congress
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It could be irrelevant after today’s action in the Senate, but this viral Big Three ad parody is no less amusing. Come to think of it, it’s not really that far off the mark.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy
Will Transit, Bikes, and Peds Get a Stimulus We Can Believe In?
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The Smith/9th St. subway station is one of many that could benefit from stimulus spending. Photo: Victoria Belanger/Flickr Sam Schwartz has an op-ed in today’s Daily News urging New York’s leaders to get ready for the massive stimulus package taking shape in Washington: Billions of dollars are being dangled in front of big cities in […]
How to Build a Better Infrastructure Plan
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Economists and lawmakers are batting around increasingly large figures for the Obama admin’s upcoming stimulus package — 300 billion dollars, 500 billion, a trillion? Whatever the final sum, a big cut will get plowed into transpo projects. The question is whether all that money will perpetuate an outdated system or lead toward a future where […]
Tell the Highway Lobby About ’09 Transpo Spending
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Not to be outdone, the road-building lobbyists at the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) have launched their campaign to influence federal transportation spending priorities over the next year, including the 2009 TEA package. Last week, while encouraging team Obama to incorporate highway construction into its economic stimulus plan, AASHTO rolled out […]
Merge
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Conservatives are fleshing out their next generation transportation ideas and Matthew Yglesias suggests that there could be a pretty big area of overlap between the left and right in this particular policy realm: To my way of thinking an enormous amount of good could be done if conservatives were more interested in applying really basic […]
Cartoon Tuesday: Detroit Double-Feature
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Click through for cartoonist Lisa Benson’s take on who calls the tune in Detroit (though maybe no longer in Washington). After the jump, Pat Oliphant peers into a possibly not-too-distant future.