LaHood Gives the Green Light

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At a National Press Club event last year, a panel moderator decided to quiz Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood on his department's policy. "Some in the highway-supporters motorist groups have been concerned by your livability initiative," he said.

"Is this an effort to make driving more torturous and to coerce people out of their cars?"

"It is a way to coerce people out of their cars,"

answered LaHood, with a blunt frankness rare for a politician.

These days, the Department of Transportation is sticking its nose into everyone's lives.

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