We noted last week that, despite our initial reservations, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood had begun to grow us. Here are some more encouraging words found on his blog:
As I've said before, we need to promote strong and connected communities that provide safe and affordable access to work, medical services, schools, shopping, recreation, and other essential activities.
This is important stuff. Someone commented on these pages the other day about how owning a car was practically a requirement for success in this country -- to get to work, to a doctor, to a grocery -- and how that becomes a disproportionate burden to the poor. Well, we don't want to take anyone's car away; that's for sure, but we also don't want a transportation system where not owning a car threatens one's ability to get by. If we want to improve the quality of life for middle-class Americans, we have to affect them where they spend, and one of the biggest bites out of a household's budget is transportation costs. I want to do something about that.
"We don't want a transportation system where not owning a car threatens one's ability to get by." Amen to that.
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