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:
Excellent; it certainly describes what we have in Porkland!
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