That $50 billion is over a 10 year period.
Gore voting for Iraq I was hardly a surprise, as he championed it regularly on TV. He then chastised Bush I for ending the war too early.
In the Clinton Administration, he was among the staunchest hawks. He would give speeches calling for removing of Saddam ("finish the job"). You can probably find some of those speeches with Google...cover the name over and you'd think you were seeing something from Rumsfeld or Cheney.
Contrary to myth, Iraq II was not invented by a small group of neocons. It had full bipartisan backing in Congress, and there are some who were close to Gore who believe he would have also been in support.
Perhaps should have put quotes around "notorious". I figure most here knew it was another just another media-generated controversy.
“Too centrist”
You young ones won't know this, but Gore had a very different persona as Congressman and VP. Note that the only reason Clinton, a notorious draft-dodger, picked Gore as his running-mate was because of Gore's reputation as the top Pentagon-hawk. As well, Gore led centrist wing of the party that wanted to eliminate welfare and implement austerity measures.
People who say Gore would have kept us out of Iraq, or not done all the other dumb shit Bush did, don't seem to recall that politician Gore was complete polar opposite of post-political Gore we know today.
Local city government cuts funding for sewer/storm drain repairs, then demands DeSantis pay for it.
Pennsylvania police have issued Fetterman two speeding tickets for going at least 24 mph over the posted speed limit.
Fetterman (D., Pa.) has received two speeding tickets in his home state — the more recent one of which was in March for exceeding the speed limit in Westmoreland County by 34 mph. Before this year, he was ticketed in April 2016 for going at least 24 mph above the speed limit in Warren County, according to state public records.
The senator’s aides have said Fetterman has texted and FaceTimed while driving, ”prompting concerns among his staff and fears about riding with him,” the Post reported, citing three people with knowledge of staff discussions who spoke about internal conversations on the condition of anonymity.
"My God. The Dukes are going to corner the entire frozen orange juice market!"
CDOT also has a lot of ongoing studies for future highway projects.
In the case of California, we had similar directives to end highway projects -- which the various highway agencies ignore.
Perhaps a Colorado resident can clarify, but this seems like the usual virtual-signaling bullshit. Just some of the projects currently going on:
https://www.codot.gov/projects/central-eastern
Then the DMV better start cracking down on large trucks (F250, etc) as well. NHTSA "safety" standards have had all kinds of loopholes exempting large trucks and SUV from basic safety features including rollover protection, head restraint, and various impact protection systems.
This new policy will definitely get overturned by the Supreme Court. As such, it is a stupid election-year gimmick.
One possible reason is their nationwide Road Safety Strategy program.
Or it could be all those crazy dashcam videos posted to the internet....
The number one local obstruction to curbing traffic violence is local commerce and merchant groups.
Though small in number, the elected interests of most local cities give disproportionate attention to business interests and their pro-driving beliefs. Even in progressive Berkeley, home of many climate scientists from the university, transportation decisions are dictated by science illiterates and business interests, not the city’s intellectuals. When Berkeley proposed building a bike lane in my neighborhood, which has no protected bike lanes near a prominent middle school, many wise locals went uncharacteristically nuts. Plastered on neighborhood businesses were conspiracy theories about a United Nations agenda to force people into plastic cities where they won't be allowed to own cars. Every other lawn has signs proclaiming economic ruin if drivers are forced to park a whopping 30 seconds away on side streets rather than directly in front of businesses.
Despite the town being highly educated, many Berkeleyans simply closed their ears to modern climate science and empirical evidence on transportation. A writer for The New York Times, one of many residing in Berkeley, privately remarked to me how astonishing it was to witness such a sophisticated population reacting like simpletons to the most modest safety improvements that are commonplace throughout the world.
Again? When did they give it to them the first time?
When they confirmed Clarence Thomas in 1991.
Automotive advertising spending in the United States was estimated at 20.8 billion U.S.
More money is spent on automobile advertising than on public transit projects.
It is actually much worse than that. The problem they are having is that street-running LRT trains get stuck in traffic, causing bunching and other scheduling issues. The obvious solution is to get cars completely out of the way of the trains. But despite an official "transit first" policy, the SFMTA won't do that. So instead they will spend >$100 million on a new signal system, which will map train locations in real-time simply to tell dispatchers what they already know -- that the trains are stuck in traffic.
(KRON) — In the North Bay, changes could soon be coming to the Richmond San Rafael bridge that would limit access to cyclists and pedestrians. For the past four years, cyclists and pedestrian…
Over $20 million was spent on this bike path, but now the MTC wants to convert into car access during weekdays.
In California, local government does not get any revenue from speeding tickets. It is one reason there is so little enforcement of traffic laws.