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The Blow-By-Blow at the Senate Banking Committee

Posted by: Tim Halbur

8 July 2009 - 2:00pm

The committee convened a hearing on Monday on green investments in public transportation, and Streetsblog got the scoop. It was 4 against 1 as witnesses sided against Randal O'Toole and his anti-transit arguments.

"O'Toole aside, the witnesses largely agreed in their recommendations: New transit investments are absolutely necessary for economic and environmental reasons, but most of the benefits from such investments will be missed without tight integration between transportation investment and land use planning.

It was a message almost perfectly tailored to rebut O'Toole before he ever spoke."

Full Story: The Imminent Irrelevance of Randal O’Toole
Source: Streetsblog, July 7, 2009
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