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Welcome back after the long Thanksgiving weekend.
Today’s top story is a republish of StreetsblogNYC alum Jesse Coburn’s most recent investigation for Pro Publica, where he found that in Trump’s second term, the USDOT opened 50-percent fewer investigations into vehicle safety defects, concluded 83-percent fewer enforcement cases against trucking and bus companies and started 58-percent fewer pipeline enforcement cases compared with the same period in the Biden administration.
Economic populism helped vault Trump into power. Could a green version of it take that power back — and what role would transportation play?
It’s untenable, but we might miss the gas tax when it’s gone.
“The future of affordable transportation may not begin at the gas pump.”
