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 Stories About: presidential race 08 AND bikes AND public transportation AND placemaking AND politics AND Barack Obama
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My other candidate is a bike
Obama, transportation policy, and the highway bill |
David Roberts |
03 Jul 2008 |
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| 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: Barack Obama, bikes, placemaking, politics, presidential race 08, public transportation (all these topics) |
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