My Ongoing Frustration with Congress

Uggh! Upon hearing of the House bill that removes all funding for pedestrian and bicycle programs and makes severe cutbacks to transit spending, I decided to vent my frustrations to my peers, who I’m sure share that same frustration. The shortsightedness of our elected officials in matters of transportation continues to bewilder me. They keep leading the nation forward on the premise that oil will always be plentiful (actually it’s not plentiful now), which increases our reliance on a resource primarily controlled by governments not always friendly to ours and contributes to a myriad of environmental issues. The continued promotion of the automobile as the ideal method of transportation encourages sedentary lifestyles, which contributes to America’s obesity problem and other health issues, and encourages sprawl, which multiplies transportation costs and decreases our quality of life. In a time when there this so much concern over government spending and the national debt, why does Congress continue to lead us on a path that will cost us more down the road?

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