I would suggest that another reason for the emphasis on transportation is the recent nod by Governor Kaine to support using the 550 million dollar surplus for transportation issues. This paves the way and we can expect a disproportionate, albeit long overdue, funding bills for road, public transport and rail. The latter particularly pleases me.

Anyone notice on this list of tags that while the largest individual word here is TRANSPORTATION, four very closely related terms–dmv,vdot,license/plate, and pollution–are tiny. And several you would expect to see–development, rail, mass transit, bus, car, infrastructure, and traffic–didn’t even make the list.

Multiple tags are often assigned to a single bill. Any bill that has anything to do with the highway system or automobiles, for instance, is tagged “transportation.” Imagine that there are three bills: one encouraging the state to participate in a new interstate, one providing funding to build a single road in Northern Virginia, and one regulating school buses. All three would be tagged with “transportation,” but the first two might also be tagged with “constructions” and the third “education.”

So transportation would be large because it encompasses many smaller tags that appear smaller, or that may not appear at all.

So … just what do all those transportation bills actually deal with?

Geez, you must be slacking off.

Do you have a link to the list of prefiled bills you can share?

Sure thing.

There are some real doozies.