KOSHER Transportation Funding

A Political Economy of Access: Infrastructure, Networks, Cities, and Institutions by David M. Levinson and David A. King

We need KOSHER Transportation Funding, Transportation legislation that prohibits pork.

This New York Times article: Campaign Funds for Alaskan; Road Aid to Florida describes the problem. Local officials in Florida are receiving funds for a road they do not want, and are being blackmailed to accepting it with the threat they won't get other funding. The reason, a local property developer contributed to

Congressman Young's campaign. And the really strange thing is in the whole scheme of things, they did not give that much ... something like $200,000 for Republicans in exchange for $91 million in local road projects.

KOSHER: Keep Our State Highway Expenditures Rational.