"The Urban Land Institute (ULI) reported Tuesday that a survey of 23 large metropolitan regions indicates that their combined transit spending over the next 25-to-30 years "will actually exceed that spent on highways, a shift of historic proportions." ULI said the seven regions with the most extensive transit systems and highest transit use "plan to increase transit spending by $6 billion annually to $16.5 billion, compared to a very modest increase in highway spending, from just under $9 billion to slightly over $9 billion.""

That is from Railway Age.  For more go here.

I would say it is about time, but that's been true well over fifty years.  I still dread the outcome of "Government Redistribution" of transportation dollars but at least it is getting somewhat balanced now after all these years.  Maybe most of America will get its act back aligned with comfort, standard of living, and maybe - ok forget it, we'll never see individual liberty as a priority again - but at least we'll have a real optional choice in the way we live in places besides only Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Portland (because really, that's about the only 4 that offer a choice, the only livable and affordable place of all of them is Portland)  With all the cities in America it is a good thing to know that we're getting ourselves aligned back with the human element vs. the "thing/auto" oriented element of life in this country.