Today’s Headlines — 12/18/08

December 18, 2008
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  • Obama selects Illinois Republican Congressman Ray LaHood for transportation secretary. (Chicago Tribune)
  • The Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City approves big budget cuts and plans for service reductions.
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  • Dave Somers

    The Ray LaHood pick is disappointing. We need a strong figure at this job who can communicate the desperate need to do the following:

    - stop investing billions/trillions into an infrastructure that will be obsolete with 20$ gallon gas prices…this is the road map to perpetual debt / economic extinction.

    - invest in a inter/intra regional rail connecting major urban areas and neigborhoods

    - change the transportation funding formula that currently rewards regions with $$ that show growth in VMT rather than performance.

    This is not a throw away / compromise position if Obama is really serious about reinvesting in a sustainable infrastructure program that will add real return on investment.

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