Some critics of President Obama suggest that he hasn’t delivered the change on which his campaign ran. In some ways, that could be true. On the topic of transportation, however, his administration has been nothing short of transformative. The culture change at USDOT is significant. When the Republican Secretary of Transportation is saying things like this, the fact that there has been a shift cannot seriously be denied.

If only Congress would get on board, we could take the next step and codify multi-modalism into a genuinely progressive transportation bill.