http://la.streetsblog.org/2007/12/06/help/ Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://la.streetsblog.org/2007/12/06/help/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Mernst Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:19:00 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=118#comment-53 Here's my big idea on SAFETEA-LU reauthorization: ditch the National Highway System funding program and instead establish a "New Starts" program for roads, modeled after the New Starts for Transit program. In this way, new road and expansion projects would be subject to a rigorous cost-benefit analysis, and would have to compete against other proposals.<br/><br/>You'd also have to establish a program just for road maintenance. Here’s my big idea on SAFETEA-LU reauthorization: ditch the National Highway System funding program and instead establish a “New Starts” program for roads, modeled after the New Starts for Transit program. In this way, new road and expansion projects would be subject to a rigorous cost-benefit analysis, and would have to compete against other proposals.

You’d also have to establish a program just for road maintenance.

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