GM’s Intelligent Advocates
Posted: February 8, 2005 Filed under: Transportation Leave a comment »WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, the Bush Administration showed its intention to put the screws on domestic discretionary spending with a budget cutting or shutting down 150 federal programs. With such a clampdown afoot, can federal funding for “Deer Avoidance Research” survive? Sure, if Neil Schuster has any say in the matter.
“We have a vision,” says Schuster, president of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITSA). “Zero fatalities and zero delays.”
Maybe it’s all the time they and their staff spend stuck in Washington traffic, but members of Congress seem to like that message. Funding for intelligent transportation systems stands a decent chance of more than doubling to $3.7 billion when Congress gets around to passing a gigantic highway and transportation spending bill.
