Harbinger talks transportation with Deeds
The Star City Harbinger has posted an interview conducted with Democratic Party gubernatorial nominee Creigh Deeds discussing transportation issues in Virginia – covering questions on mass transit, intermodal transportation, bike culture and more. You can access the video on the SCH site here or click on the link below. Length: 8:03. Read more
The same old GOP shell game
Republican Party gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell seems to agree now that Virginia needs to invest more in its transportation system. That’s good news.
Two questions. One, can we trust somebody who has been a key player on the team that has been blocking substantive progress on transportation solutions to do what he is now saying he wants to do to get Virginia moving? And two, is what he saying he wants to do going to get the job done? Read more
How much longer must we suffer this idiocracy?
Column by Chris Graham
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Most of us agree that Virginia has itself a roads problem. You don’t have to sit in traffic for too long in Northern Virginia or Hampton Roads or Richmond or deal with congestion on U.S. 29 in Charlottesville or Interstate 81 anywhere in Western Virginia to recognize that much.
The devil is in the details of how to address the problem. I’m not 100 percent about this, but it seems to me that doing jack squat isn’t going to solve it. Read more
Transportation-funding plan going down the wrong path
Op-Ed by Dave Shreve
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The Virginia Organizing Project and its Tax Reform Committee commend Gov. Tim Kaine for his recent efforts to publicize and push for expanded investment in the state’s transportation network. There is little doubt that Virginia faces an ongoing road-maintenance funding deficit, that there is ample need for public spending on innovations beyond automobiles and asphalt, and that there must also be significant roadway improvements undertaken throughout the Commonwealth. Read more
Kaine hopeful for roads fix
Story by Chris Graham
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When Gov. Tim Kaine first made the call for a June 23 special session on transportation last month, he thought there was “about a 50-50 chance” that lawmakers would be able to get something done in terms of coming up with additional monies to go toward maintenance and new road projects.
“That’s just being a realist,” Kaine told me today in Staunton. “The legislature wrestled with it in 2000, ’02, ’04, ’06, ’07, and now ’08. Six times. It’s been tough, but I think the legislature has a lot to prove. They took a step forward last year and finally said, Let’s do this, and they came up with a bill. Unfortunately, much of it has either been repealed or struck down. But look, they were willing to do something last year, so they should be willing to vote to do something now.”
Listen to AFP editor Chris Graham’s interview with Gov. Kaine.
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Daily Rant | The wages of our sin on transportation
Posted by afp on September 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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