Hillary Clinton has introduced a version of the Transit Relief Bill into the Senate. The bill, which would allocate $1.7 billion to ease the financial strain of increased ridership on local transit agencies, passed the House in June but lacked a Senate cosponsor until now. It's hard to see it being signed under Bush (principled conservatives like Bush oppose subsidies for transit systems that aren't made out of corn), but Clinton has a lot of star power, and if she wanted to make this bill a vehicle for her to push the Democratic caucus towards a coherent and aggressive advocacy of transit, she certainly could.
