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Congress should approve Trump’s effort to stop funding local transit boondoggles 0
- May 17, 2017
by Randal O’Toole President Trump has proposed to stop funding new New Starts projects. New Starts, along with its subsidiary program Small Starts, is a multi-billion-dollar fund created by Congress, and funneled through the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), that gives cities incentives to build the most expensive transit systems possible so they can get “their
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Congress should approve Trump’s effort to stop funding local transit boondoggles 0
- May 2, 2017
President Trump has proposed to stop funding new New Starts projects. New Starts, along with its subsidiary program Small Starts, is a multi-billion-dollar fund created by Congress, and funneled through the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), that gives cities incentives to build the most expensive transit systems possible so they can get “their share” of the “free” federal dollars.
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Colorado transit doesn’t need state funding 0
- February 21, 2017
The misleading data are part of a report by a Boulder group known as the South West Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP), which is urging the state legislature to spend more money on transit.
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RTD finally deserves a compliment 0
- December 1, 2016
by Jon Caldara As you may know, I have a hard time giving RTD a compliment. But they’ve earned one. My political career started when I was elected to the Regional Transportation District board in 1994, where I later became chairman. I was quick to realize that not only does RTD do little to increase
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Transportation planners show ignorance, anti-auto bias over self-driving cars 0
- July 6, 2016
What if people place a high priority on mobility to a lot of different destinations, not just ones they can reach on foot or transit?
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O’Toole: Blame Urban Planners 0
- April 5, 2016
Blaming the highways for planners’ poor ideas is the same as blaming a two-by-four for an architect’s poor building design.
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