http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/08/01/mary-peters-in-miami-today/ Moving Together, Faster Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:16:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/08/01/mary-peters-in-miami-today/#comment-8044 Kordor Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:12:30 +0000 http://www.transitmiami.com/?p=2579#comment-8044 Decent speech, long on rhetoric, short on concrete policies. She spoke about reducing the number of Federal surface transportation programs from 102 to 8 that focus on truly Federal priorities, and awarding the remainder of funds as sort of block grants so that local governments can spend it on their own priotities rather than having the Federal government mandate all 102 ways to spend it. The final Q of Q&A, a guy asked how the Federal government is planning to deal with the eventuality of flying cars. Decent speech, long on rhetoric, short on concrete policies. She spoke about reducing the number of Federal surface transportation programs from 102 to 8 that focus on truly Federal priorities, and awarding the remainder of funds as sort of block grants so that local governments can spend it on their own priotities rather than having the Federal government mandate all 102 ways to spend it. The final Q of Q&A, a guy asked how the Federal government is planning to deal with the eventuality of flying cars.

]]> http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/08/01/mary-peters-in-miami-today/#comment-8030 Emperor Tomato Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:08:15 +0000 http://www.transitmiami.com/?p=2579#comment-8030 Jim Ray, the assistant to Mary Peters was on C-Span's show Washington Journal, lots of great questions but few good answers. Jim Ray, the assistant to Mary Peters was on C-Span’s show Washington Journal, lots of great questions but few good answers.

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