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Car culture on the skids
USA Today: oil prices drive up asphalt costs, derail road maintenance |
Tom Philpott |
06 Jun 2008 |
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| For decades, public cash has gushed into building infrastructure designed to get us around in those little (or not-so-little) privatized pods. Indeed, the mobilization to create and maintain our road and highway network probably counts as our greatest public achievement of the last half-century. Meanwhile, while the highway rode high, our rail-transportation network crashed. Attacked and defunded by politicians and rejected by the public, Amtrak lurches on, barely. It's ... |
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| Topics: gas prices, oil, placemaking, public transportation, urban planning (all these topics) |
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