#Transpo bill sucks. What did you expect?

Transit union says highway bill will raise public transportation fares for riders - The Hill's Transportation Report: ""This transportation bill is a death blow to public transportation; it not only does nothing to address the American mass transit crisis, but will make it much worse,” Hanley said in a statement released by the union.

“It’s actually a tax increasing bill that will impose hidden taxes on commuters and transit riders by raising fares while forcing cash-strapped transit systems to cut more service,” he continued."

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It is time to change priorities in Montgomery County - Action Committee for #Transit

Action Committee for Transit-: "The Action Committee for Transit has a vision of a Montgomery County where it is easier to travel and more pleasant to live -- a county built for people and not for automobiles.

Years of experience have shown, and studies prove, that building highways leads to more traffic and more congestion. Affordable, convenient transit gives us a way to get past the traffic jams and fosters a better quality of life in our neighborhoods.

It is time to change priorities:

Connect our communities with a network of rail lines.
Redesign our streets to make it easier and safer to walk and to ride a bike.
Create the kind of neighborhoods we want to live in."

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Oil trolls in congress hold up #transit funding. Hundreds of thousands of jobs at stake.

A dead end on transportation - Editorials - MiamiHerald.com: "The organization representing the nation’s civil engineers says the U.S. road system rates a D-minus as conditions deteriorate “to the point at which Americans spend 4.2 billion hours a year stuck in traffic at a cost of $78.2 billion a year in wasted time and fuel costs — $710 per motorist.” The poor condition of roads adds another $67 billion in repairs and operating costs to the bill."

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Plenty of money for banks, no money for #publictransit?

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Victims of bailed-out banks are evicted with automatic weapons. While no bankers have even been arrested.

Seventy Percent of Americans want fossil-fuel subsidy to stop

Everything you need to know about fossil fuel subsidies in one image. | 350.org: "Watching that bottom number tick up with every passing second is pretty outrageous, but there’s good news: we now have an opening to end these taxpayer handouts to corporate polluters. A new poll revealed that 70% of Americans — including majorities of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans — support ending fossil fuel subsidies."

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Public transportation is habit-forming — and that’s a problem! - The Washington Post

Getting their daily fix of transit. (Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post)

Public transportation is habit-forming — and that’s a problem! - The Washington Post: "But what happens when gas prices start sinking back down — something that’s happening right now? Evidence suggests that many of those riders will keep taking transit anyway. One 2011 study of New York City, for instance, found that transit ridership “seems to respond to rises in gasoline prices, but not to falls.” A 2009 study in Philadelphia found a similar phenomenon. “This sustained growth,” the authors of the latter study note, “could be evidence that once prices compel people to form new transit habits, some find a reason to keep them.”"

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Gas & Oil Party will kill the economy to force you back in your car

Hostage-taking on the Silver Line - The Washington Post: "If you want a perfect example of why government has become dysfunctional, look no further than the Board of Supervisors of Loudoun County, Va."

A majority of the newly elected, all-Republican board has threatened to derail the extension of Metrorail out to Dulles Airport and beyond because of a requirement that the general contractor for the project negotiate a “project labor agreement” with local construction unions.