Quote of the Day
October 14, 2010|Next American City
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"Subverting state economic and environmental interests to protect property values? There's an app for that."
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Blogosphere: Obama "No Such Thing as Shovel Ready"
October 14, 2010|Transportation Nation
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In the upcoming New York Times Sunday Magazine, journalist Peter Baker's profile of President Obama, "Education of a President," includes this quote... Read On
Vancouver: Stop Raising Property Taxes for Transit
October 14, 2010|Vancouver Sun
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Metro Vancouver mayors are once again calling on the provincial government for gas taxes or other forms of revenue to pay for transit projects like the Evergreen Line, saying they don't support another property tax increase... Read On
Reconnecting America Lauds Obama Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment Proposal
October 14, 2010
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Monday, President Obama renewed the call for investment in our nationʼs infrastructure, bringing with him the voices of a bipartisan group of governors, mayors, and policy experts to underscore the urgency of action. The Miller Center for Public Affairsʼ Bipartisan Conference, led by former Secretaries of Transportation Norman Mineta and Samuel Skinner, and the Council of Economic Advisors along with the Department of Treasury, set the groundwork for this discussion with recently released analyses of investment options.
Press Release: Reconnecting America Lauds Obama Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment Proposal
October 14, 2010
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President Obama renewed the call for investment in our nationʼs infrastructure, bringing with him the voices of a bipartisan group of governors, mayors, and policy experts to underscore the urgency of action. The Miller Center for Public Affairsʼ Bipartisan Conference, led by former Secretaries of Transportation Norman Mineta and Samuel Skinner, and the Council of Economic Advisors along with the Department of Treasury, set the groundwork for this discussion with recently released analyses of investment options. The Obama Administration laid out the contours of a proposal designed to deliver concrete benefits to the American people.
Bipartisan Panel of Experts Call for a New Vision for American Transportation
October 14, 2010
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In a report released last week by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, a bipartisan group of renowned transportation professionals issued recommendations and a call to action for Congress and the Administration to embrace a new vision for transportation in America. President Obama referred to the report in a Monday press conference, where he discussed a $50 billion transportation infrastructure plan and a future national infrastructure bank.
The report, "Well Within Reach: America’s New Transportation Agenda" is the product of a three-day conference where 80 experts representing a wide array of transportation interests met to strategize on how to address the challenges of our national transportation system, including chronic revenue shortfalls and underinvestment in infrastructure, and to create an…
The report, "Well Within Reach: America’s New Transportation Agenda" is the product of a three-day conference where 80 experts representing a wide array of transportation interests met to strategize on how to address the challenges of our national transportation system, including chronic revenue shortfalls and underinvestment in infrastructure, and to create an…
National: Miles Not Gallons Could be Key to Upkeep
October 8, 2010|Miller McCune
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The fuel efficiency of cars in America has been steadily improving for years, and this is, undeniably, a good thing. It turns out, however, that we've built into our transportation system a terrible, inherent contradiction: As we need less gas to get from point A to point B, less revenue is generated by the gas tax that paves the road between those two places...
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Blogosphere: What Gives? Why No Land Value Tax?
October 5, 2010|Yglesias
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This isn't really apropos of anything, but is there any reason at all to think it makes sense to tax property values rather than land? I wasted an hour or so this morning googling and reading about the idea of a land-value tax and the case for it seems (a) extremely compelling and (b) to be made primarily by cranks...Read On
Cincinnati: Casino to Pay for Streetcar Operations
October 1, 2010|Cincinnati Enquirer
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Up to a quarter of the $20 million a year Cincinnati expects to get from the casino will be spent to operate the streetcar. The money won't start flowing in until 2013, but City Council on Wednesday - in a meeting full of confusion and delays - set its priorities for spending it... Read On
Quote of the Day
September 29, 2010|The Hill
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"[The infrastructure bills] are not sexy. They are not going to get a member a vote ... They are not going to garner headlines until something tragic happens,"
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