Today’s Headlines — 12/18/08
December 18, 2008By Andrew Bielak
- 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.
- The State of Texas has some looming transportation needs — $313 billion through the year 2030. (Houston Chronicle)
- Missouri’s list of transportation projects for the federal stimulus needs some major revisions. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
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December 18th, 2008 6:04 pm
The Ray LaHood pick is disappointing. We need a strong figure at this job who can communicate the desperate need to do the following:
- stop investing billions/trillions into an infrastructure that will be obsolete with 20$ 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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