Traffic World Reports on the Potential Impact of a McCain or Obama Administration...

Traffic World Reports on the Potential Impact of a McCain or Obama
Administration on Transportation, Trade and Freight Movement

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- As the nation inches closer to
choosing its first new president in eight years on Nov. 4, transportation,
logistics and infrastructure groups are poring over the records of presumptive
party nominees Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)
with new urgency.
"Transportation rarely gets mentioned on the presidential campaign trail,"
notes Traffic World Associate Editor Ari Natter. Natter, who covers government
for the Washington-based logistics and transportation weekly, tackles the
topic in two Traffic World cover stories. Free access to "Transportation Eyes
McCain" and "Taking Obama's Measure" is available at
http://www.trafficworld.com/newssection/government.asp?id=47596.
"Issues around infrastructure are complicated, after all; the work is
expensive and the entrenched view of roads as a local matter means they're
often taken for granted in the national debate," Natter writes. "In other
words, talking about potholes doesn't get presidential votes.
"The high-stakes game is aimed partly at mapping out the possible
transportation policies of a new administration under either candidate,"
Natter adds. "More significantly, however, it's aimed at filling in the
transportation gaps for each candidate and setting policy planks more firmly
to turn them into actions next January."
Although McCain has a far longer record, he has left few legislative
footprints in transportation. Obama has spoken out more directly about
transportation and infrastructure in his campaign and has endorsed ideas such
as a National Infrastructure Bank, Traffic World writes, but many business
executives are concerned his support for pro-labor legislation would give
union organizers more inroads into transportation businesses.
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Paul Page, editor-in-chief, Traffic World, +1-202-355-1170,
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