Ten reasons opposition to the House transportation bill is growing
- Ends three decades of dedicated federal funding for public transportation.
- Cuts overall transportation funding for nearly every state and relies on risky and speculative funding sources.
- Takes away local control, planning authority and resources.
- Ends the “Safe Routes to School” program and other dedicated funding to make streets safer for walking and bicycling.
- Eliminates the bridge repair program and offloads responsibility for thousands of deficient bridges to local governments.
- Allows transportation money in a pollution-control fund to be used on new roadways for solo drivers.
- Requires more bureaucracy at transit agencies.
- Bets big on little-known “State Infrastructure Banks.”
- Undermines basic safeguards to protect human health and the environment, and to give citizens a voice in the project review process.
- Abandons any true “national” interest in transportation.
Read the rest at: Transportation For America » The more they see, the less they like: 10 reasons why opposition to the House transportation bill is growing

10 years later, the sad lesson of the Segway: The suburbs killed your rocket-pack
“Instead of becoming the next Bill Gates or Henry Ford, Kamen might find himself ending up like another great American inventor, Preston Tucker, who in the 1940s built the Tucker, a car too far ahead of its time.”
I think the explanation is far simpler. The Segway revealed what we in the suburbs are getting to know more and more: You cannot walk or bike from any place of significance to any other place of significance in most modern areas of human habitation.
In a world largely created for cars, a conveyance like the Segway is nothing but a toy.
Ten years on, and I've neither ridden one nor seen one at use "in the wild" by anyone other than a mall cop or city tourist.
Read the rest at: » A Segway anniversary JIMROMENESKO.COM
Posted on December 02, 2011 at 10:36 AM in Bad news, Bad Planning, Close to Home, Commentary, Traditional Neighborhood Development, Traffic/Transportation, Transit | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
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