There’s Ferris Beuller, Star Wars, an exercising canine and a bungee jumping car. We’ve rounded up the slew of “leaked” car commercials set to run in this Sunday’s Super Bowl. Watch them here.
The House Ways and Means Committee voted to to remove funding for transit from the highway trust fund by a 20 to 17 vote. The vote was mostly along party lines, with two Republicans voting against it. In his opening statement, House Ways and Means Committee Chair David Camp (R-MI) said: “The Congressional Budget Office…
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The reviews are in on the House transportation bill: “It’s like funding a quit-smoking program by lowering the smoking age to generate more revenue from cigarette taxes.” (USPIRG statement) “It would reverse all the progress we have made in the past 20 years…horrible.” (League of American Bicyclists) “This bill is less about creating jobs and…
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House Republicans rolled out parts of a $260 billion transportation infrastructure bill Tuesday, casting the legislation as a major vehicle for job creation and energy production. The five-year bill reauthorizes highway, transit and safety programs but also eliminates or consolidates dozens of existing federal functions. Supporters said its designed to streamline federally-funded projects, cut bureaucratic…
President Obama is making it clear he won’t miss an opportunity to push the narrative that bailing out Detroit was the right thing to do (particularly since Romney didn’t want to.) The Preisdent walked into the showroom of the 70th annual Washington Auto Show this afternoon, where he inspected about 15 new electric and hybrid…
(Michael Grabell, ProPublica) [1]This story was adapted from “Money Well Spent?: The Truth Behind the Trillion-Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History [1],” which will be published Tuesday by PublicAffairs. A common criticism of President Obama’s $800 billion stimulus package has been that it failed to produce anything – that while the New…
As Zipcar, Hertz On Demand and other car share startups spread across the nation, city by city, why is it that some places get car sharing programs, and others don’t? What makes a city ripe for collective cars? We asked the companies how they choose.
(Orlando, Fla.) Congressman John Mica says he will unveil next Tuesday a major five-year transportation bill to allow more public private partnerships to expand the capacity of Interstate Highways. Locally Mica, who Chairs the U.S. House Transportation Committee, says that means creating new tolled lanes on Interstate 4. ”What I’d like to do is double the …
On the heels of a blistering Congressional hearing yesterday comes a new Chevy Volt ad designed to convey the message that Detroit is back.
(New York — Kathleen Horan, WNYC) A local attorney will argue a case using the recent Supreme Court decision banning law enforcement from using GPS to track suspects without a warrant to challenge the use of data gathered from GPS systems in cabs as evidence. He’s defending a taxi driver in a lawsuit against the…
