Comments on: Reason to Like Rahm Emanuel as White House Chief of Staff http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/11/07/reason-to-like-rahm-emanuel-as-white-house-chief-of-staff/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:41:55 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Jack http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/11/07/reason-to-like-rahm-emanuel-as-white-house-chief-of-staff/comment-page-1/#comment-58667 Jack Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:33:26 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=4905#comment-58667 Rahm is my Congressman. He played a significant role in securing federal funds for the CTA's Brown Line expansion, which essentially rebuilt every Brown Line station north of the loop. The project should be wrapped up by March '09. He gets it. http://chicagotransitauthority.net/news/archpress.wu?action=displayarticledetail&articleid=119462 Now I need a new Congressman. Also note this little ditty I found on the newly-launched change.gov web site: "Build More Livable and Sustainable Communities: Our communities will better serve all of their residents if we are able to leave our cars, to walk, bicycle and access other transportation alternatives. As president, Barack Obama will re-evaluate the transportation funding process to ensure that smart growth considerations are taken into account." http://www.change.gov/agenda/urbanpolicy/ Rahm is my Congressman. He played a significant role in securing federal funds for the CTA's Brown Line expansion, which essentially rebuilt every Brown Line station north of the loop. The project should be wrapped up by March '09.

He gets it.

http://chicagotransitauthority.net/news/archpress.wu?action=displayarticledetail&articleid=119462

Now I need a new Congressman.

Also note this little ditty I found on the newly-launched change.gov web site:

"Build More Livable and Sustainable Communities: Our communities will better serve all of their residents if we are able to leave our cars, to walk, bicycle and access other transportation alternatives. As president, Barack Obama will re-evaluate the transportation funding process to ensure that smart growth considerations are taken into account."

http://www.change.gov/agenda/urbanpolicy/

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