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Keeping the Stimulus in Focus
The Friends of Earth have released a report titled “Road to Ruin” identifying 27 highway projects they are unnecessary and unbalanced. The report underscores a key imbalance between road and transit funding from the Federal Government. Uneven Playing Field–To gain approval and federal funding, transit projects face far more intense scrutiny than highway projects. While…
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Their Masters’ Voice
I’ve been attending the joint MPAC/JPACT workshops on the Regional Transportation Plan. As part of the process they use keypad polling to determine support for various strategies. The responses are tallied in several groups: Policy Makers (elected officials and appointed committee members), staff, and others (mostly advocacy groups and a few citizens). There’s an interesting…