America in Gridlock: [VIDEO] Stimulus Roadblock?
President Barack Obama’s stimulus money is about to be distributed, but will it be spent in the way it is intended? One alarming example: Mass transit. Cities and states, strapped for money, are...
View ArticleAmerica in Gridlock: [MAP] Major mass transit operating budgets
Tom McNamara, Blueprint America A look at America’s top mass transit systems – from budget deficits to finding new revenue sources to how agencies will manage both. Also, find out how each agency plans...
View ArticleThe Take Away: ‘The nation is heading towards a transit crisis’
Blueprint America correspondent Rick Karr talks with The Take Away on public radio about the operating budget shortfall common to most of America’s mass transit systems, and if Congress’ stimulus plan...
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Obama signs economic stimulus bill
Tom McNamara, Blueprint America As President Barack Obama signed the stimulus bill in Denver on Tuesday, it released the biggest influx of federal dollars since the Great Society program of President...
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America in Gridlock: [REPORT] Infrastructure of the stimulus plan: $8.4...
Tom McNamara, Blueprint America A breakdown of provisions and funding requirements for mass transit in The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. [Transit Capital Assistance] [Fixed Guideway (Rail)...
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America in Gridlock: [VIDEO] Transit in Trouble (2 of 2)
[sorry, this video no longer available] With transit agencies running in the red, some have found themselves linked to complex financial deals — in the hopes of creating new revenue sources — that have...
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Some transit stimulus now available for operating costs
Tom McNamara, Blueprint America President Obama, with Vice-President Biden, signing the stimulus bill into law last February in Denver. || Photo: The New York Times When the stimulus bill was passed...
View ArticleThe Next American System: [VIDEO] The Transportation Cowboy
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Cowboys don’t ride buses
1940s WPA poster, showing various infrastructure projects that could benefit a community at the time || Unknown, WPA Tom McNamara, Blueprint America The Dallas Cowboys left town for a new stadium...
View ArticleProfiles from the Recession: [OVERVIEW] Profiles from the Recession
There is no one person to decree that a recession has begun or ended, but that hasn’t stopped anyone. It isn’t until months, even years after a recession has started that the word can be used with much...
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Profiles from the Recession: [VIDEO] Riding The Bus In Natchez, Miss.
In an economic recession that has isolated countless Americans, rural residents without a way to get around may be the most isolated of all. We don’t think much about public transportation in rural...
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