Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Once again the residents of New Jersey and New York are having the lesson taught to them: the Republicans CAN’T be trusted with the nation’s infrastructure. True, sometimes Democrats mess up (witness the condition of New York City’s subways), but Republicans have proved over and over and over again for over a generation that they are unwilling to spend the money to maintain existing plant or fund the construction of new infrastructure. Despite the efforts of lame-stream corporate news media to pin this neglect on personalities like Christie or Trump, it’s actually the whole blamed Republican Party.