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 Stories About: Barack Obama AND placemaking AND politics AND presidential race 08 AND public transportation
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My other candidate is a bike
Obama, transportation policy, and the highway bill |
David Roberts |
03 Jul 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Great story in CQ this week on bike politics. Did you know that Obama met a few weeks ago with 160 cycling advocates and promised them his support? I didn't. The 600-pound gorilla in transportation politics is the 2009 negotiation of a new highway bill, which according to CQ 'is already being touted as embodying the greatest overhaul of federal transportation policy since President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Interstate Highway Act into law half a century ago.' ... |
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| Topics: presidential race 08, bikes, public transportation, placemaking, politics, Barack Obama (all these topics) |
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Obama on rail transit
A candidate finally discusses public transit ... at a random lunch |
David Roberts |
01 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| So I'm looking at this pool report from a run-of-the-mill day in the Obama campaign. Barack and Michelle dropped by to have lunch with an Indiana couple, Mike and Cheryl Fischer. Mike works in Amtrak's Beech Grove shop, as his family has for generations. Notes the report dryly: "No news." But I scan down a bit to the middle, where Barack's talking to Mike about his impending layoff at Amtrak, and suddenly my mouth is hanging open. Says Obama:The irony is w ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, placemaking, politics, presidential race 08, public transportation (all these topics) |
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