Decision 2004: Where's the urban agenda?

26 October 2004 - 5:00am

There's no shortage of challenges facing America's cities -- too bad neither candidates are addressing them.

Neal Peirce writes that even though polls show a vast majority of Americans want the federal government to fund improvements in cities such as mass transit, affordable housing and more places to walk and cycle, the current Presidential election has been sadly lacking in any real discussion of these issues.

Source: The Seattle Times, October 25, 2004
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Every dollar spent on new and wider highways is a dollar taken from taxpayers, and every inch of right-of-way that Big Brother takes is an inch taken from landowners.