The Washington Post’s Lyndsey Layton and Spencer S. Hsu provide an in-depth look at the ideology that governs the Department of Transportation’s top political leadership. Namely, Mary Peters, the secretary of transportation and Tyler Duvall, the assistant secretary for transportation policy, think that the free-market – not, for example, a federal gas tax – is the better path to good roads.  In practical terms, this has meant actually lobbying against federal funding for the agency, experimenting with congestion pricing in metropolitan areas and tolls, tolls, tolls.  Read Layton and Hsu here.  MB

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