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Obama administration sells transit out to protectionists (again)

May 22, 2011 By Stephen Smith

I'm not sure how I missed this (actually, I have an idea – more on that in a minute), but back in February the Federal Transit Administration issued the following warning about strengthened "Buy America" transit procurement protectionism: Congress and the Obama Administration asked Americans to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Barack Obama, protectionism, transit, unions

LaHood’s revealingly stupid reply to the WaPo’s HSR criticism

January 15, 2011 By Stephen Smith

The WaPo earlier this week ran an editorial against California high-speed rail, and on Friday ran a response from Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. As the dedicated anti-California HSR blog High-Speed Train Talk says, the letter does a pretty good job of summing up everything that's wrong with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: California, high speed rail, highways, protectionism, Ray LaHood

The “Systemic Failure” of US transportation policy

December 20, 2010 By Stephen Smith

Today I stumbled upon a blog that's gotta be the best one I've found in a while. It's about US transportation policy by a blogger who seems to be based somewhere in the Bay Area, and it's called, fittingly, Systemic Failure.The post that first got my attention was this one about London's bike … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Bay Area, bicycles, protectionism, safety, transit, unions

Airport Protectionism?

June 9, 2008 By Adam Hengels

Richard's Real Estate and Urban Economics Blog - Federalism and TaxisTaxicabs in the Washington area are regulated by various jurisdictions--DC cabs may not pick up fares in Virginia and Maryland, Virginia cabs can't get passengers in the District and Maryland, and District Cabs are forbidden … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transportation Tagged With: Airport, airports, LaGuardia, NJ, nyc, protectionism, surcharge, Taxicabs

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