Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Election 2008

McCain Impressed by US Trains, So Long as They Don’t Stay in US

By Brad Aaron | Aug 13, 2008 | No Comments

Our friend Sean Roche sent us a link to this brain-bending video of John McCain stumping in Pennsylvania. Just before the 1:00 mark, after McCain gives an ambiguous plug for electric cars, he unloads this doozy: "I was with Governor [Tom] Ridge yesterday, and we visited a General Electric plant in Erie that makes […]

Ad Nauseam: Pocket

By Damien Newton | Aug 11, 2008 | 1 Comment

Over the last couple of weeks, the issue of gas prices and energy have played a major role in the presidential campaign. By now you’re probably familiar with the warring campaign ads between John McCain, Barack Obama and Paris Hilton, arguing over which presidential candidate has the best energy plan and what their opponent’s plan […]

Bike Unfriendly Place of the Week: The Democratic National Convention

By Damien Newton | Aug 8, 2008 | 6 Comments

This is a Threat to Barack Obama’s Security? Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series on bikes and the national conventions. To read about the bike sharing program put together by Bikes Belong, click here. You can just see the planning meeting for what organizers are calling the Greenest National Political Convention […]

Obama’s Energy Platform Has a (Small) Livable Streets Platform

By Ben Fried | Aug 7, 2008 | No Comments

When Barack Obama gave his big energy speech on Monday, his campaign released an eight-page fact sheet [PDF] to go with it. All the way at the end, at the very bottom of the last page — after the parts about plug-in electric vehicles, oil shale, and clean coal technology — there’s this paragraph: Build […]

Energy Policy Straight Talk From Elizabeth Kolbert

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 6, 2008 | 1 Comment

Back in his Straight Talkin’ days Senator John McCain acknowledged that offshore drilling wasn’t a viable solution for America’s energy troubles. In 2003, he broke with the Bush Administration and co-introduced legislation to reduce carbon emissions, by, in effect, imposing a price on them. McCain had a reputation for being a politician who told the […]

Hillary Clinton Introduces Senate Version of Transit Relief Bill

By Ben Fried | Aug 5, 2008 | No Comments

Transit operators struggling to keep pace with demand as rising fuel costs strain their budgets received some welcome news on Friday. New York’s junior senator has introduced a version of the Saving Energy Through Public Transportation Act. The bill, which would provide $1.7 billion for local transit agencies over the next two years (including $237 […]

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