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transportation  By enelson Friday, January 18th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
in Freeways, fuel, Funding, Safety, tolls.   As I sit here high
above the Nimitz Freeway, members of my favorite Caltrans
maintenance crew are busy patching a 1-by-1-foot hole in the
highway’s bridge over High Street.  How appropriate that I just
got off the phone with Steve Heminger, who had just flown in
from Washington, D.C.  Heminger, who by day is executive
director of the Bay Area’s very own Metropolitan Transportation
Commission, was tapped in 2005 by Nancy Pelosi to serve on the
National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study
Commission.  That hole in the Nimitz is but one of many such
holes in freeways around the nation, and the money to fix them —
permanently — is dwindling to nothing.  Heminger’s panel,
chaired by U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters, just
finished hashing out how this nation might be able to fix such
crumbling transportation infrastructure. Funny ho