to me, any funding for transportation, car/bike/walk/train/whatever, has to lean towards tilting the balance of power away from cars and towards everything else. i don’t see how this money does that.

for instance, let’s say we commit this new 1,000 million dollars — how much of that will go towards ‘traffic management’ technology which will help make the driving experience more pleasant? $500 million or more? if it was $551 million going towards non-car technology/infrastructure, or $551 million going towards charging car drivers for the actual damage they’re doing (somehow capturing externalities, say, through decongestion pricing, etc.), then yes, let’s do this funding — otherwise, just no.