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This may not seem manifest at first, but a proposal pending in Congress could have a positive effect on America's rail future. The proposal is to give the District of Columbia it's first true voting representative ever. (Which in itself is long over due.) The bipartisan balance calls for additional Rep from Utah for the undercounted missionary population. Now the obvious is that DC will bring a Democrat and Utah will bring another Republican. What's not so obvious is that not only do Democrats tend to support rail, but that Utah is witnessing the benefits of lightrail in Salt Lake City, and the new Utah Republican might not be so anti-rail after all.
Please consider supporting the bill currently waiting for a vote:
www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp
Thank you,
david
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Re: Rail and DC representation
Sat, March 22, 2008 - 4:20 PMI believe that there needs to be legislation from the Feds that highway funding ties in with a efficient public transportation system along with a congestion tax. Those who do drive are already paying for the lack of mass transit iespecially in our smaller cities. Give us who want to limit or eliminate driving that option of being carfree.
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Re: Rail and DC representation
Thu, November 26, 2009 - 10:11 AMI just realized something(s). Democrats, especially Clinton supported Amtrak by cutting its budget. Republicans especially Bush the 2nd was against Amtrak and showed it by increasing its budget. This tells me that if President Obama can get Amtrak in the right track, he has 16 years of a mess to clean up after.
