Every five years, Congress gets another whack at shaping the broad outlines of federal transportation policy. This is when the egg-heads, the lawmakers, the bill-drafters, lobbyists, the DOT staff big-wigs and hundreds of others tussle over whether we ought to focus on toll roads, freeways, or rail lines? Or all three, or two and not the other, and, well, scores of other big-picture (and very big-dollar) questions.
Sometimes the bills are visionary, and sometimes they look more like … [visit site to read more]