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I’m not sure how I missed this (actually, I have an idea – more on that in a minute), but back in February the Federal Transit Administration issued the following warning about strengthened “Buy America” transit procurement protectionism: Congress and the Obama Administration asked Americans to provide $787 billion to help avoid an economic catastrophe [...] May 22nd, 2011 | Tags: Barack Obama, protectionism, transit, unions | Category: Uncategorized | 17 comments |
 printable viewby Stephen Smith As if America’s public transportation networks weren’t hobbled enough by union wages and pensions, the Obama administration’s “Buy American” pandering is adding to the burden. One streetcar line in Houston has been sent back to the drawing board because it didn’t comply with purchasing provisions attached to federal money: The [...] September 17th, 2010 | Tags: Barack Obama, transit | Category: Uncategorized | 21 comments |
printable viewby Stephen Smith Just in case you were under the impression that Obama’s high-speed rail commitment was genuine, the Boston Globe would like to disabuse you of that notion: The railroad tracks from Boston to Washington – the busiest rail artery in the nation, and one that also carries America’s only high-speed train, [...] December 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Barack Obama, high speed rail, Stephen Smith | Category: Transportation | 10 comments |
printable viewFrom "Highway to hell revisited", a Financial Times article by Christopher Caldwell: The Highway Act probably has more defenders than detractors. But Mr Obama should be among the latter. The act, which budgeted $25bn in federal money to build 41,000 miles of motorway, exacerbated the very problems Mr Obama has been most eager [...] March 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Barack Obama, Highway Act, highways, sprawl, stimulus | Category: Environment, Transportation | Leave a comment |
printable viewWithout getting too political on inauguration day, I’d like to share a positive video featuring our new President that urbanists should appreciate, regardless of political persuasion: Let’s hope President Obama keeps Jane Jacobs’ lessons of spontaneous order from The Death and Life of Great American Cities in mind as he makes economic [...] January 20th, 2009 | Tags: Barack Obama, Jane Jacobs, video | Category: Economics, Jane Jacobs, planning, video | 16 comments |
printable viewby Stephen Smith Yesterday I was listening to the pre-inaugural concert at the Lincoln Memorial on the radio, and one of the speakers said something that struck me as emblematic of the challenges that Barack Obama faces, though I doubt she realized the ironic significance. She was praising Theodore Roosevelt’s conservationist legacy as [...] January 20th, 2009 | Tags: Barack Obama, conservation, highways, roads, Stephen Smith, Transportation, Urbanism | Category: Transportation | Leave a comment |
printable viewThis post is part of an ongoing series featured on Market Urbanism called Urbanism Legends. The Urbanism Legends series is intended to expose many of the myths about development and Urban Economics. (it’s a play on the term: “Urban Legends” in case you didn’t catch that) Last week President-elect Obama announced some [...] December 8th, 2008 | Tags: Barack Obama, carbon, Henry Hazlitt, infrastructure, Market, stimulus, subsidization, Urbanism | Category: Environment, sprawl, Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends | 18 comments |
printable viewJohn McCain and Hillary Clinton have both supported the idea of a “Gas Tax Holiday“. The whole idea of a Holy Day to celebrate the worship of socialized transportation catered by Santa Clinton/McCain seems pretty absurd to me. Nonetheless, they expect pandering to gas-addicted voters to pay off in their election hopes. Unfortunately, [...] May 12th, 2008 | Tags: Barack Obama, Economics, election, Free-market, highways, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, petroleum, politics, pork, President, privatization, transit, Transportation | Category: Transportation | 30 comments |
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