Break the Political Traffic Jam on Transportation Overhaul

Big thinking after World War II changed the nation. It must evolve again.


By Joshua Schank , Matthew Dallek
Posted June 25, 2009

Joshua Schank is transportation research director at the Bipartisan Policy Center and was the transportation policy adviser to former Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Matthew Dallek is a visiting scholar at the Bipartisan Policy Center and teaches history and politics at the University of California Washington Center.

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