Transportation: No Good, Deeds

Gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds has a plan for improving transportation in Virginia. Here it is: Build consensus.

He doesn't say what the content of the consensus should be. He just thinks there should be consensus. Whatever the General Assembly decides, apparently, is fine with him.

This would be the same General Assembly that has largely failed to arrive at any transportation consensus for roughly a decade, despite special sessions and the strenuous efforts of Gov. Tim Kaine, who declared two days after his inauguration that "solving Virginia's transportation crisis is the most urgent issue facing my administration."

And the one time consensus did develop around a plan, it called for abusive-driver fees that sparked a popular revolt and transportation authorities with taxing power that were struck down by the courts.

Deeds' opponent, Bob McDonnell, has produced a laundry list of proposals for addressing transportation. You might not like them, but at least you know what they are. We don't see how Deeds can expect Virginians to elect him governor if he won't say what he intends to do with the office.