Comments on: Oberstar’s New Transportation Bill: Get The Highlights http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/06/18/oberstars-new-transportation-bill-get-the-highlights/ Your daily source for national transportation policy news and analysis. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:32:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Jim Brewer http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/06/18/oberstars-new-transportation-bill-get-the-highlights/comment-page-1/#comment-75961 Jim Brewer Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:08:51 +0000 http://dc.streetsblog.org/?p=7102#comment-75961 Hooray for Jim Oberstar! Transportation is only 3% of the federal budget and it shows. We have bridges falling into the river and airlines so poorly regulated that near minimum wage pilots are allowed to fly airline planes through ice storms. Turkey has high speed rail and is building another line. We could build five such lines and it wouldn't even be a rounding error on the federal budget. Meanwhile the Republicans would rather make snide remarks about "magic trains to Disneyland" and rather we ride ox-carts than spend a dime of tax money on transportation. Hooray for Jim Oberstar! Transportation is only 3% of the federal budget and it shows. We have bridges falling into the river and airlines so poorly regulated that near minimum wage pilots are allowed to fly airline planes through ice storms.

Turkey has high speed rail and is building another line. We could build five such lines and it wouldn't even be a rounding error on the federal budget. Meanwhile the Republicans would rather make snide remarks about "magic trains to Disneyland" and rather we ride ox-carts than spend a dime of tax money on transportation.

]]> By: Daniel http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/06/18/oberstars-new-transportation-bill-get-the-highlights/comment-page-1/#comment-75947 Daniel Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:58:13 +0000 http://dc.streetsblog.org/?p=7102#comment-75947 Thanks for giving these informative summaries. There's no way I could slog through all of this on my own. Thanks for giving these informative summaries. There's no way I could slog through all of this on my own.

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