Comments on: News and stuff… http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/05/02/news-and-stuff/ Moving Together, Faster Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:19:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: JM Palacios http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/05/02/news-and-stuff/#comment-6301 JM Palacios Sun, 04 May 2008 02:45:37 +0000 http://www.transitmiami.com/?p=2375#comment-6301 That is an old article on MSNBC, but it's dated 10/22/2007, which is less than a year. Still, the Miami Herald should stay a little more current. Thanks for pointing that out, Julian. The listing is not purely opinion, but a little misleading by saying the 5 cities have the worst traffic. Elliott is only listing the 5 cities that got federal funding for congestion pricing projects. In our case, I'm pretty sure that's funding for the I-95 HOT lanes that we won. The cities that obtained funding won not by having the worst traffic, but by having the best plan for dealing with traffic. Well, what FHWA thought was the best plan. The Miami Herald article removed links from the MSNBC article. See it <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21326693/" rel="nofollow">here</a>, and read the linked article on <a href="http://www.dot.gov/affairs/dot8507.htm" rel="nofollow">DOT's website</a>. That is an old article on MSNBC, but it’s dated 10/22/2007, which is less than a year. Still, the Miami Herald should stay a little more current. Thanks for pointing that out, Julian.

The listing is not purely opinion, but a little misleading by saying the 5 cities have the worst traffic. Elliott is only listing the 5 cities that got federal funding for congestion pricing projects. In our case, I’m pretty sure that’s funding for the I-95 HOT lanes that we won. The cities that obtained funding won not by having the worst traffic, but by having the best plan for dealing with traffic. Well, what FHWA thought was the best plan.

The Miami Herald article removed links from the MSNBC article. See it here, and read the linked article on DOT’s website.

]]> By: Julian http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/05/02/news-and-stuff/#comment-6300 Julian Sat, 03 May 2008 19:33:25 +0000 http://www.transitmiami.com/?p=2375#comment-6300 Dont want to burst y'alls bubble but the article the Herald used about traffic is more than a year old and was purely opinion by the collumnist over at MSNBC. Actual listings of worst traffic or most congested cities have Miami ranked near the botoom at 10th or 11th. Dont want to burst y’alls bubble but the article the Herald used about traffic is more than a year old and was purely opinion by the collumnist over at MSNBC. Actual listings of worst traffic or most congested cities have Miami ranked near the botoom at 10th or 11th.

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