{"id":241657806,"date":"2012-08-28T23:10:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T23:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=241657806"},"modified":"2012-08-28T23:10:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T23:10:06","slug":"dukakis-to-transportation-nation-you-were-dead-wrong-on-romney-and-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=241657806","title":{"rendered":"Dukakis To Transportation Nation: You Were \u201cDead Wrong\u201d on Romney and Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou were dead wrong. When Romney left the governorship, the state was a wreck\u2013 rusting bridges, potholed roads, a great transit system that had serious financial problems he refused to fix, and a pathetic inability to get anything done. Projects that should have taken months took years, and his \u201d fix it first\u201d program was a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n

https:\/\/transportationnation.org\/2012\/08\/20\/dukakis-hits-romney\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Update:
\nTo be fair I found this positive spin:<\/p>\n

"Still, Romney\u2019s resistance to building lots of new transit infrastructure may be an indicator of exactly the kind of fix-it-first mentality he\u2019s known for \u2014 and a sign that crumbling infrastructure was, indeed, a major concern of his. After all, Boston has the oldest transit system in the country, with badly deteriorating infrastructure. Former Boston transportation official Ted Brown says it was \u201cadmirable \u201d that Romney gave capital projects a back seat to focus on maintenance."<\/p>\n

https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2012\/09\/05\/fact-checking-deval-patricks-attack-on-romneys-transpo-record\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou were dead wrong. When Romney left the governorship, the state was a wreck\u2013 rusting bridges, potholed roads, a great transit system that had serious financial problems he refused to fix, and a pathetic inability to get anything done. Projects that should have taken months took years, and his \u201d fix it first\u201d program was … <\/p>\n

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