(Source: Huffington Post, March 14, 2012)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Gas prices are up. More people are relying on mass transit instead of driving their own cars. But the transportation bill the Senate will consider on Tuesday does very little to help shift Americans away from their car-centric, gas-dependent lifestyles.
Instead, the Senate bill keeps federal funding heavily tilted toward building more highways and away from building more subways. Of the 18.4 cent per gallon federal gas tax, the biggest source of funding for transportation projects, the Senate bill sends 2.86 cents to public transportation — the same as its current level.
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