USDOT Budget Recognized For Efforts To Improve Livability

While many people are complaining about the state of transportation and funding for it, and arguing over the federal reauthorization (see below),
Better Cities & Towns says the US Department of Transportation's 2013 budget is taking a new tack- going so far as to propose far reaching reforms that promote livaility and complete streets. And they've got some blueprints on how to do so, including adopting a broad complete streets, policy, consolidating programs and setting new goals, awarding communities that go 'above and beyond' the minimum when it comes to transportation and combining rail with transit-oriented development.

Here's the article.