This week’s episode of NOW on PBS provided some great insights onto the reasons why the stimulus package won’t go the right way for transit. The show focused mostly on the politics of transportation in North Carolina, including the successful push of Charlotte’s Republican mayor to build their new Lynx light rail line. One of my favorite parts was the commentary that David King, head of the Research Triangle’s Regional Transit Service, offered on the frustrations of the last eight years:
“I do not believe the Bush Administration believed in the growth-shaping characteristics of transit. So they were not looking forward; they were looking back.”
Watch the full episode below:
This episode was part of PBS’ series on infrastructure problems in the United States, Blueprint America. One of the first shows in the series, Driven to Despair, did an excellent job showing the problems of and possible solutions to auto-dependency (something we’ve discussed at length in my Cities and Transporation Systems class at UPenn) in the Southern California communities of Hemet, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Pasadena.
McCain has stayed competitive, in part, because a significant number of voters remain ready to choose him not for what he would actually do in Iraq, but for what he seems to symbolize in the hall of mirrors that is American politics.
I’ve made a couple of changes to the site over the last couple weeks. I upgraded the backend of the site to Wordpress 2.6 (which will help me put more conventient captions on my images, among other changes). And there are some changes to the sidebar on the left. Instead of automatically copying all of ACE’s blog entries as posts on my site, only the titles will be shown on the left sidebar. I will still upload the posts that I write for ACE to my site. More headlines in the style of ACE’s blog will be coming soon. New links have been added under reading material, and more are coming. Finally, I added my del.icio.us bookmarks. The three most recent pages I have added to this social bookmarking site will show up on my site.
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