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Pressing challenges face America's transportation networks, despite the passage of two key pieces of federal legislation in the 1990s that offered a new framework for transportation practices and helped to level the playing field between highway and alternative transportation strategies, as well as between old and new communities. Congestion is a hallmark of many metropolitan areas, while infrastructure is fraying. Working families often face daunting commutes to jobs whether they live in the metropolitan outer fringe or the heart of the city. And transportation funding, rather than creating new jobs and economic activity overall, typically shifts development from one metropolitan area to another. Here, experts in the field of transportation provide ideas for reform that could help state, metropolitan, and local leaders apply practical solutions to our nation's transportation dilemmas.
About the Author
Bruce Katz is vice president, director of the Metropolitan Policy Program, and Adeline M. and Alfred I. Johnson Chair in Urban and Metropolitan Policy at the Brookings Institution.
Robert Puentes is a fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution.
Taking the High Road: A Metropolitan Agenda for Transportation Reform (James A. Johnson Metro) (James A. Johnson Metro),Bruce Katz,Robert Puentes,Brookings Institution Press,0815748272,Government - U.S. Government,Political Science,Politics / Current Events,Politics/International Relations,Public Finance,Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.,Public Transportation,United States,Urban transportation policy,Transport industries
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