Transportation Stimulus Gives Short Shrift to Cities

New York Times by Michael Cooper, Griff Palmer | Jul. 9, 2009 (Special Report)

A New York Times analysis of 5,274 projects found that metropolitan areas were getting less than half of the federal transportation stimulus money. Full Story »

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Fred Gatlin
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 by Fred Gatlin - Jul. 9, 2009

This is one of the poorest stories I have seen in the New York Times. To make stimulus work, work on highways must begin quickly. That is difficult to impossible to do in cities.

Must cites allow more cars and trucks or should they be limiting the number that come into the city and looking at ways to get people and items into the city other ways.

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