Leveling The Playing Field Between Highways And Transit

15 December 2003 - 2:00pm

Despite a number of reforms in the past decade, federal rules remain stacked against transit, and funding highway projects is far easier, this study shows.

Despite a number of reforms in the past decade, federal rules remain stacked against transit, and funding highway projects is far easier. This brief by Edward Beimborn and Robert Puentes compares how highway and transit programs are treated differently by federal legislation and policy and how those differences lead to an unlevel playing field, distorting good local planning, management, and decision making.

Source: The Brookings Institution, December 15, 2003
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