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            It gives aggravated commuters a place to vent, as well as a forum for finding alternatives.

This could be the year to do something about

America

’s traffic mess it in Congress, since lawmakers will be writing a new federal transportation bill.

            A group called Transportation for

America

is trying to organize people to push for what it calls a “safer, cleaner, more efficient and more complete transportation system.”

            The group is funded by private philanthropic grants, with the largest from the Rockefeller Foundation.

            “We are calling for a safer, cleaner, more efficient and more complete transportation system. We can get there, first, by maintaining and managing what we have already built so that we can make the most use of itm” said David Goldberg, the group’s communications director.

“We have built the interstate highway system for which the current program was designed in the 1950s. Today the challenge is not so much moving between cities, but getting around within them.”

Among the ideas are encouraging public transportation that serves more than the core downtown areas so that there are more safe streets for walking and biking and “retrofitting” suburbs so that they are more walkable and have transit options.

And then there’s this tongue in check video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61GacCz_OPM&feature=channel_page