Proof about the need to organize for transit, that the process is just starting, not ending with the election of Barack Obama

In "Reality Check: Clinton ‘92: the Transport Politic blog makes the point that Bill Clinton campaigned on funding high speed rail and an early form of a carbon tax. One of the commenters describes how Conservative Democrats and then the Newt Gingrich-led Republican resurgence in 1994 led to the failure of these and other initiatives.

Certainly, as the quotation of Dean Gunderson and Robert Puentes in other entries today demonstrates, there are many issues with how roads are favored in current practices. I was joking to myself while writing that the best thing we could do for transit would be to transfer all the people in the Federal Transit Administration who work in the cost analysis unit to the Federal Highway Administration, and have them develop and apply a similar costing framework that would be applied to highway construction requests...