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TRANSPORTATION ISSUES * USA - Taking Obama's Measure
Looking at the policies and potential impact of a possible McCain or Obama administration on transportation, trade and the freight movement industry
Washington,DC,USA -Traffic World, by Ari Natter -25 Aug 2008: -- Transportation rarely gets mentioned on the presidential campaign trail. Issues around infrastructure are complicated, after all; the work is expensive and the entrenched view of roads as a local matter means they're often taken for granted in the national debate. In other words, talking about potholes doesn't get presidential votes... But speaking before hundreds of city mayors and other officials at the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors in Miami in June, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama not only embraced the topic but suggested that infrastructure investment would be an important pillar in his campaign... Still, a lot remains unknown about the details of Obama's transportation policies. While Obama has included transportation as an "issue" on his campaign Web site - something McCain has yet to do - many of the details remain vague...
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