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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

THE problem with Trimet and its planning procedures

The problem in the United States, he writes, is that most big transportation spending decisions are made by a handful of powerful interests who believe that keeping the public in the dark is to their advantage. That’s helped produce a lot of bad projects and made good projects worse, Levy says
Transit advocates also need to be advocates for transparency and an informed public,
Good infrastructure does not come from autocrats. Nothing comes from autocrats except more wealth and power for the autocrats, which may or may not involve infrastructure that is useful to the public.

Read the article at Do American Transit Projects Suffer From a Democracy Deficit? | Streetsblog.net

1 comment:

MAX Redline said...

Excellent; it certainly describes what we have in Porkland!