How much additional funding is really needed to keep our nations infrastructure from crumbling?
We believe that the United States must invest more than it currently does in our nation’s transportation infrastructure to maintain and improve the system. A blue-ribbon commission appointed by Congress to study America’s transportation policy found that Congress would need to fund the federal highway program at levels between $65 billion and $100 billion annually to improve the system and address serious needs. Currently, federal highway funding is less than $40 billion per year. Or put another way, the U.S. spends at most two-thirds of what we should to maintain and improve our transportation system. • Are there specific policies that you think should be included in the new transportation bill? We desperately need a greater commitment to upgrading our country’s critical infrastructure. Besides providing the increased funding necessary to make that investment, we also urge Congress to: • Streamline the project approval process. The process of moving a transportation project from plann
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