…from Cato’s Randal O’Toole covers the push in Congress for the transportation reauthorization bill that will provide funding for the next six years. He also discusses the reports by transportation special interest groups that want more spending than the House is likely to approve.
The entire newsletter is well worth reading here. This is O’Toole’s conclusion.
We can expect to see many more reports like these. While their arguments are full of flaws, they will all be working toward the smart-growth agenda of spending more on transit and high-speed rail and less on highways. In contrast, my preference is to simply end the federal transportation program and let the states spend on whatever forms of transportation work best for them--preferably forms that pay for themselves through user fees.
