Streetcar tracks deleted from 11th Street Bridge (for now)
[B' Spokes: Is it too easy to build car centric roads and harder to build anything else?]
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from Greater Greater Washington
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Already, federal regulations impose greater burdens on transit projects. To get funding, transit projects have to meet complex cost-effectiveness criteria while highway projects do not. The FTA acts at times like it's the Federal Make Transit More Difficult Administration. That's not because they're anti-transit, per se, but simply that they are regulating transit, FHWA is regulating roads, and FTA is the stricter parent.
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