Federal vs. State Funding for Transit
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell ripped into President Bush on Wednesday for cutting federal mass transit funding:
Rendell, whose proposed 3.4 percent increase in state mass transit funding would be the largest in a decade, says most of the burden of improving Pennsylvania's ailing transit systems should fall on the federal government. The Bush administration, he said, is trying to amend a 13-year-old transportation funding act to make it tougher for states and individual transit systems to secure funding for capital expenditures like subway tunnels and new buses.
Rendell recommended that an increase in the federal gasoline tax go to improving mass transit -- an idea I wholeheartedly approve of.
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amg | 11:42 AM |
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