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A transit renaissance?
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 56, Number 3, Summer 2009
- pp. 39-41
- 10.1353/dss.0.0063
- Article
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In transportation, as in so many areas, the Obama administration is playing catch-up. But few other fields of policy offer such opportunities for innovation. Changing circumstances make attainable what once was visionary. And transportation's unusual status in today's polarized politics, as a field of legislation in which local interests trump partisanship, offers hope that Congress will be a partner in policy making rather than an obstacle to be overcome.