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marcuscnelson

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Re: Taken for a Ride? Action News investigates Nat Ford
« Reply #30 on: February 12, 2024, 11:32:54 PM »
Some of this is good, but some (banning climate change from being a factor in transportation planning? State funding for VTOL ports? Moving the state match for New Starts transit projects back into the general transportation fund if not used soon enough? How do they even define "any social, political, or ideological interest"?) seems like it'd have some pretty frustrating consequences, especially for pursuing federal funding.

This seems to me like it'd be slightly better funding oversight (and less tinted windows) in exchange for kneecapping transit in a bunch of other ways.
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Re: Taken for a Ride? Action News investigates Nat Ford
« Reply #31 on: February 12, 2024, 11:49:58 PM »
Scratch that, this seems… awful, actually?

This is a bill to ban any mention of COVID-19 by any transportation agency, mandate new funding go towards highway construction over anything else, ban any consideration of climate impacts (and explicitly any attempt at net-zero emissions) on transportation projects, spend millions of dollars propping up VTOL startups, and the benefit is supposed to be that maybe some transit executives take salary cuts? Seriously?
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