Day: January 25, 2011

Supervisor Scott Wiener, who has pledged to make transportation issues a priority, today called for a hearing to address a growing number of complaints about unreliability from riders on the J-Church line.

Editor's note: Today we are very pleased to begin a five-part series of excerpts from Peter Calthorpe's book, "Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change." Keep reading this week and next to learn how you can win a copy of the book from Island Press.

President Obama is expected to make a strong push for infrastructure spending during the State of the Union address tonight. Ahead of the address, the Transportation Equity Network organized its members and supporters to write to President Obama, telling their personal stories of why transit funding is crucial to their communities. In all, TEN will deliver 1,000 personal letters to the President asking him to support transit investments. A few have already been sent.

We've often scratched our heads as to why many Republicans -- especially the party's leadership -- seem so averse to rail, transit and bike infrastructure. There seems to be a mismatch between the party's espoused ideals and its preference for highly subsidized and highly expensive auto infrastructure.

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