[Lorianne]

"About everything we do around here is government intrusion into people's lives," he said.

You have to admit, he has a point there.

[EGPWS]

"We have to create opportunities for people who want to ride a bike or walk or take a streetcar," he said. "The only person that I've heard of who objects to this is George Will."

Mr. LaHood, meet #2.

[GeronL]

Talk to the Sec of Energy.... make sure they are all white buses

[Tarpon]

Make mine “Cash Cab”

[b4its2late]

LaHood is a LaJerk.

[WOBBLY BOB]

part of the master plan:

Obama Budget Rescinds Oil, Gas Industry Tax Breaks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246209/posts

Why Do Progressives Love Trains?
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/78374.html

[EGPWS]

In a question-and-answer session following his remarks, Lahood expressed exasperation with the suggestion from some of his fellow Republicans that redirecting federal transportation money from highways to other modes of transportation amounted to government meddling in individual decisions.

It's called freedom of movement, in which this administration fully intends to take away.

Put us in little boxes in the inner cities and remove our personal mode of transportation like the good little sheeple we should be.

[dalereed]

Make all mass transit illegal unless it is 100% self supporting with no government money to build it!

[Le Chien Rouge]

A bus route has stop in front of my apartment building and the same bus route has a stop in front of my office.

The bus takes 25 minutes from home to work.

My car takes 10 minutes from home to work.

I save 30 minutes a day commuting by private vehicle.

Many of my co-workers have similar situations.

Take the money from public transit and widen the damn roads.!!!

[napscoordinator]

If they want us out of the cars than they need to make bike paths (as good as Germany and Austria), run paths (as good as France), subway systems (as good as London) and then perhaps we will consider public transportation. It will take YEARS before we are up to European standards of public transportation.

[Buckeye McFrog]

so I take it every American now has the right to catch a streetcar? Let’s start adding-up the cost to provide that to people in, say, rural western Nebraska, or the U.P of Michigan...

[popdonnelly]

Name a city with mass transit that doesn’t also have huge traffic jams.

[popdonnelly]

“About everything we do around here is government intrusion into people’s lives,” he said.”

Say, Roy, how about you stop?

[Paine in the Neck]

This is what he said first:“It is a way to coerce people out of their cars."

Now it's: "We have to create opportunities for people who want to ride a bike or walk or take a streetcar"

He's just a little clumsy with the spin.

[Bookie1066]

He thinks I'm going to stand at a bus stop in Las Vegas in the middle of the summer when it's 115 degrees at 1 in the afternoon to go to work.

Yeah right. Right after he stops being driven to work on the tax payers dime

[BenLurkin]

“The only person that I’ve heard of who objects to this is George Will.”

[a fool in paradise]

LaHood, a former Republican congressman from Illinois, made his remarks during a speech at the National Press Club about Obama's economic stimulus plan, which directed billions to transit and high-speed rail, and the upcoming transportation bill.

Chicago is the hub for this high-speed rail swindle. It's a way to funnel billions to connected cronies.

[bfree]

This administration is operating as if they are following George Orwell, unfortunately they never read the books to see the results of their orders.