Mariia Zimmerman
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Livability and the GOP: A Conversation With HUD’s Mariia Zimmerman
Perhaps the Obama administration's greatest contribution to building more livable, less traffic-choked communities has been the new partnership between three agencies -- DOT, EPA, and HUD -- which are helping towns and cities grow more sustainably, using strategies from brownfield redevelopment to the provision of affordable housing along transit corridors. The agencies have collaborated to issue a series of grants to communities doing this work, but as the lower chamber of Congress shifts to Republican control, the funding for some of those programs is in question.
November 23, 2010
Ask the Candidates to Talk Transportation at Tomorrow’s Debate
We've noted throughout this election season that transportation policy is something of a third rail in presidential politics. Gas prices and auto industry jobs are irresistible fodder for campaign promises, but even the candidate who has decent ideas about rail travel and bike infrastructure doesn't mention transit on the stump. (The other one doesn't have much to say in the first place.)
October 14, 2008
Bush Admin Wants to Rob Transit to Pay for Highways
Construction projects like these additions to San Antonio's I-410 may stop short without an infusion of cash.
February 8, 2008