» Capon’s Statement on Public Transportation & Climate Change Counters Critics
In a written statement [PDF] for the record in response to a hearing held July 7, 2009, by the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation & Community Development entitled Public Transportation: A Core Climate Solution, NARP President and CEO Ross Capon points to a host of taxpayer subsidies for automobile and air travel to rebuff critics who say that these modes pay for themselves via user fees. Capon also deliniates the external costs associated with the United States’ “fly-drive” transportation system, as well as the myriad benefits of passenger rail and transit and the livable communities they foster.
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