As Congress Extend Current Transportation Law Another Six Weeks, Reform Becomes Ever More Urgent
October 30, 2009By Stephen Lee Davis
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congress this week again postponed action on the overdue rewrite of the federal transportation law, passing a continuing resolution set to expire on December 18. In response to this action, Transportation for America Director James Corless released the following statement:
“Congress has once again let a key deadline pass without tackling serious reform of America’s transportation system. With crumbling bridges and continuing traffic gridlock, communities across America cannot wait much longer for a new transportation bill.”
“In recent weeks several proposals have been advanced to fund infrastructure to assist with job creation. While Transportation forAmerica strongly believes that transportation investment is good for the economy, national investments must be coupled with real reform that expands transportation options, spends money more wisely and fixes existing infrastructure. Our large and diverse coalition cannot support spending more taxpayer money under the current federal system of outdated priorities and broken processes.”
“We commend House Transportation Committee Chairman James Oberstar for keeping transportation reform on the front-burner. He has laid out a responsible path toward reform and Congress ought to follow his lead and pass a long-term federal transportation bill that establishes a new vision for a 21st century transportation program that is smarter, cleaner and safer.”
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