In case anyone is interested, here is a link to the Report of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission. Be aware, some of the PDF files are very large, even for high-speed connections.
And here's one of the paragraphs deleted from the report that was approved by the full commission:“It is disappointing that after [the section I contributed] was passed by a nine to three vote that someone without ever asking me would see to it to do away with these important policy considerations,” Weyrich said to NCI. “It is the kind of gutter politics that make people hate their government, and Washington in general.”
You can read the rest of the story, as well as much of the significant parts deleted over at Railway Age.com. Note: This is a news listing that keeps pushing older stories down, as new ones are added. So with each passing day you will need to scroll down the page to find this specific story.“Federal policy should include a clear and unambiguous endorsement of a shift away from the private automobile to public transportation for travel in urban areas. It should be the objective of the Federal government to bring all aspects of transportation policy in line to support and encourage this shift, including provision of adequate resources. As federal policy is amended to reflect its support for public transportation as the preferred approach to urban mobility, with a strong focus on electric railways, many other specific policies will change with it. In the long term, it should be the objective of Federal transportation policy to provide every American the option of mobility without an automobile.”
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