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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Highwaymen take over the Transportation Department The WaPo reveals why mass transit gets the shaft on the national level	Tom Philpott	20 Mar 2008	Gristmill
I have a couple of things to add about the Washington Post article pointed to by Ryan Avent in his smart recent post about mass transit.The article, by Lyndsey Layton and Spencer S. Hsu, is a superb and important piece of work, but it's maddeningly written; it buries key and even shocking information. The theme is the takeover of the Department of Transportation by neocon ideologues with ties to the highway industry. Evidently, they're using the department as a tool ...
Topics: Department of Transportation, public transportation, placemaking (all these topics)

Priced to move A comprehensive solution to end congestion	Ryan Avent	19 Mar 2008	Gristmill
On Monday, the Washington Post took a look at the ideas of a key Department of Transportation policymaker named Tyler Duvall, a man of bold plans who hopes to bring congestion pricing to highways across the nation. Congestion pricing is an idea with roots in the field of economics, widely supported by a broad spectrum of transportation officials. Unfortunately, Duvall has decided to use a very limited pool of federal transportation dollars to push this plan on cities a ...
Topics: Department of Transportation, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)