Brudder, Can You Spare a Dime …

As Elana reports, mass transit turns out to be doing even worse in the senate stimulus bill than it did in the one from the House, where it was already wildly underfunded. One part of the equation here is definitely the need to spend money quickly. There are far more roads waiting to be fixed than there are public transportation projects ready to be started. But I wonder if another issue isn’t the one Atrios points to here — public transportation, especially rail, has no coherent political coalition behind it.