Comments on: Flashback: Does the Government Owe Transportation $21 Billion? http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/06/23/flashback-does-the-government-owe-transportation-20-billion/ Your daily source for national transportation policy news and analysis. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:29:04 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Clutch J http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/06/23/flashback-does-the-government-owe-transportation-20-billion/comment-page-1/#comment-76031 Clutch J Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:33:40 +0000 http://dc.streetsblog.org/?p=7171#comment-76031 The transportation fund isn't owed anything. When gas taxes start paying for all the roads and parking, not to mention the pollution clean-up, emergency medical services and armies needed to maintain auto-based mobility, then they can start complaining. This puts the walk-bike community in a tough spot on the Hill. We're almost entirely dependent upon Oberstar for the presence of good walk-bike programs and policy in the federal program, so that silences us on larger transportation policy issues. The transportation fund isn't owed anything. When gas taxes start paying for all the roads and parking, not to mention the pollution clean-up, emergency medical services and armies needed to maintain auto-based mobility, then they can start complaining.

This puts the walk-bike community in a tough spot on the Hill. We're almost entirely dependent upon Oberstar for the presence of good walk-bike programs and policy in the federal program, so that silences us on larger transportation policy issues.

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