By local folks I hope he means local planning officials and residents, not people like Tom Delay.At the end of his brief remarks, LaHood made a comment sure to endear him to every mayor and county leader who's complained about unfunded mandates and dictates from D.C.
"It's the local folks who know best their transportation needs," he said.
Local folks, if not using my concepts of regional and metropolitan transit networks, and the transit and mobility sheds, can screw up just as much.
ReplyDeleteThat is a scalar different issue than whether or not various politicos are ideologically against transit.