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Do we need another red-versus-blue, metro-versus-retro divide? Or another reason why federal transportation funding is screwy?
Robert Puentes of the Brookings Institution points out that now that the federal gas tax isn’t covering the national highway fund (hello, BAILOUTS), it’s kinda unfair to keep dishing out road money as if states like California, New York, and Massachusetts aren’t disproportionately covering the entire country’s highway deficit. Take a little from the red states (above) and give it to the blue states.
And if we needed more evidence of transportation screwiness (or another reason to hike the gas tax), gas prices may be linked obesity in that permanently high gas prices can encourage less car-centric lifestyles and sprawly development. (Both article links via GGW.)
