-
Channeling your Road Rage
Transportation for America has a new campaign: “My Commute Sucks“. The idea is to tell Congress to rethink America’s failed transportation policy as part of the next Re-authorization Bill: Tell Congress: “My commute sucks and it’s not getting any better. Stop pouring billions into a broken system. Transportation shouldn’t be an expensive, dirty burden. Fix…
-
The Route to Reform
Transportation for America has released its blueprint for reform in the next transportation authorization bill. The blueprint is titled “The Route to Reform: Blueprint for a 21st Century Federal Transportation Program” and includes four major planks: Articulate a National Vision, Objectives, and Performance Targets for the national transportation program and hold state and local transportation…
-
AARP Joins T4America
Hmmm… Can we assemble enough constituencies to really make a different transportation agenda happen? From the press release: AARP Joins the Transportation for America Campaign, Seeks Transportation Reform To Help Americans Live Well Independently Source: AARP Press Center | 2009-03-24 Nancy Thompson 202-434-2560 AARP Joins the Transportation for America Campaign, Seeks Transportation Reform To Help…
-
T4America Launches Campaign for Reauthorization Bill
Transportation for America has launched an advocacy campaign for the new transportation reauthorization bill: As debate opens on the next transportation spending bill, a poll released today by the National Association of Realtors and Transportation for America found that the American people overwhelmingly favor a more diverse and smarter portfolio of investments in public transportation,…
-
The End of Sprawl as We Know it?
Obama on the road: It’s imagining new transportation systems. I’d like to see high speed rail where it can be constructed. I would like for us to invest in mass transit because potentially that’s energy efficient. And I think people are a lot more open now to thinking regionally… The days where we’re just building…