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Especially in this moment when rising gas prices have set Amtrak ridership records, having one of the rail service’s supporters handed a bigger soapbox creates a real moment of potential. This country needs more public transit — more miles of service, funding to repair and upgrade equipment, … and, as Atrios tirelessly points out, we need public transit to become an organizing principle of new development of residential and commercial areas. This is one of the most important components of improved energy policy.
August 25, 2008 at 7:48 am
[...] Senator at the age of 30. He authored the landmark Violence Against Women Act. He commutes via Amtrak. On top of all that he once powerbombed Slobodan Milošević through a flaming table during a [...]
September 9, 2008 at 3:54 am
[...] and negotiating HSR development with the intractable auto and airline industries will require clear-headed and far-sighted political [...]