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Eleven former transportation secretaries urge Congress to act on transportation funding
nothin will happen, dc is so screwed up i feel so sorry for my grandchildren and even my kids
nothin will happen, dc is so screwed up i feel so sorry for my grandchildren and even my kids
Does anyone really think the disfunctional Congress will listen to the Eleven?
I believe this didn’t happen overnight, and the Obama Administration could have funded the program in 2009-2010 as part of the stimulus package. The package would have received far more and broader support had transportation infrastructure been a bigger or more coherent part of the package. (I would also add Space and Military Reset should have been included in the bill.) Instead the stimulus was a packaged “Santa Claus” list where everyone got a little “something.”
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When will the gutless wonders in congress get up enough courage to touch the third rail and raise the highway user fees and gas tax enough to fully fund the Highway Trust Fund?
It seems we really need to come together and write our congresspeople. We need to add our weight as voters to the voices of those 11 former transportation secretaries.
Those bozos in the house will never do anything meaningful as long as Obama is in the White House. They are hoping that their inaction will adversely affect his presidency.
There is NO ESCAPE that we will all be paying, one way or another, for these much needed infrastructure repairs and safety improvements. New highway projects which are sucking up most of the money need to be put on an indefinite hold until we bring the rest of our transportation infrastructure up to a good state of repair.
Building toll roads is the worst idea, as funds for those roads are locked in to those roads only and have little or no flexibility to be spent elsewhere.
The idea of VMT (vehicle miles traveled initially sounds good, but in the long term, makes almost every road and street a toll road. It also opens the door for more government intrusion on our privacy rights. Traveling will cost more as all vehicles will have to be fit with expensive techno-gadgetry to monitor movements.
The best way to preserve our rights to privacy and liberty to to travel would be to raise the fuel and then spend it where it is needed the most for repairs, safety, and upgrades of the existing infrastructure.
New highway building projects that will require borrowing megabillions of funds from foreign banks can wait. We tried the toll road concept and it has failed. No wonder why we are deeply in debt.