Posts tagged John Mccain
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Afternoon links: Seen through a lens
New cameras coming; Visting a better transit system; CaBi: Try it, you’ll like it; Loh more open on Purple Line; Can you do better for Ike?; Hine gets smaller, loses Shakespeare and Tiger; Move the region forward through meetings; McCain doesn’t want you to bike to the airport. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Routes to school and the route for a school
Bright future for Hine; Stifling routes to school?; Buses vs. people; Camper bike; Wisconsin without Circulator?; Not your father’s affordable housing; McCain, Coburn: Everything but highways is “wasteful”. Keep reading…
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GO VOTE
Posting will be light today because 1) I’ll be voting (will there be long lines?) and 2) You should be voting instead of reading blogs. Voting is the most important thing you can do all year this year, especially if you live in Virginia. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Yes we can reduce auto dependency
McCain pretends to like transit: An Obama spokesperson proudly touted Obama’s support for Dulles rail, Metro funding and infrastructure investments in a Q&A with WTOP’s Adam Tuss, while the McCain spokesperson danced around his candidate’s constant opposition to transit projects. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Three jeers and a cheer edition
Urban planners in blue: Ike Leggett wants to give the police sole decisionmaking power about what pedestrian paths should go around the Fillmore. Meanwhile, planners and elected offiicals will have almost no say. (Just Up the Pike) Keep reading…
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Smart candidates, smart editorials
The Kojo Nnamdi show (with Kojo himself on vacation) is talking up a storm on transportation issues. Last week, it was a segment on Smart Growth featuring Roger Lewis, CSG‘s Stewart Schwartz, and others. Lewis explains how Smart Growth is about focusing development around an “armature” of transportation infrastructure, and how the original “wedges”… Keep reading…
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Urgent Political Proposal
This secret email was recently leaked from John McCain and Hillary Clinton’s draft email folder: Keep reading…
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Conservative won’t vote for McCain partly because of rail
Paul Weyrich, the leading conservative proponent of rail transportation, wouldn’t vote for John McCain in the general election in part because of McCain’s opposition to rail investment. McCain “would fight us on everything,” Weyrich said, including shutting down Amtrak and opposing projects like the Dulles extension, where he vehemently disagrees… Keep reading…
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Presidential candidates on transit, cycling and walking
Streetsblog’s LA correspondent Damien Newton researched the Presidential candidates’ positions on transportation. For the Democrats, both Obama’s and Clinton’s platforms hold a great deal of promise. Obama is the most pro-cycling candidate, extols the virtues of walking, and supported Chicago’s transit system while in the Illinois legislature,… Keep reading…