Angie Schmitt
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It’s Time to Vote for the “Sorriest Bus Stop in America”
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We asked you to point us to the nation’s worst bus stops and you answered. After receiving dozens of nominees from our readers, Streetsblog editors narrowed the pool down to eight very sorry bus stops.
These bus stops are ugly. Ugly! In a transportation system where public agencies never seem to lack the money for $800 [...]
More Money Won’t Fix U.S. Infrastructure If We Don’t Change How It’s Spent
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Milwaukee’s Marquette Interchange is a beast that cost $810 million to build. If this is how state DOTs spend their money, existing infrastructure will continue to crumble. Photo: HNTB
“America’s infrastructure is slowly falling apart” went the headline of a recent Vice Magazine story that epitomizes a certain line of thinking about how to fix the nation’s “infrastructure [...]
It’s “Transit Christmas” for These Bus and Train Projects in Obama’s Budget
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LA Metro’s expansion plans would get a boost with $100 million for the Purple Line extension. Photo: Wikipedia
In addition to the broad strokes of transportation policy outlined by the White House yesterday, the Obama administration also put out a much more specific proposal: the list of transit expansion projects recommended for funding in fiscal year [...]