US transportation secretary Anthony Foxx has called for lawmakers to pass a multi-year infrastructure funding bill, saying the cycle of temporary extensions is killing states' willingness for road and transit projects.
It has been ten years since Congress last passed a transportation funding bill of longer than two years.
"Last year we sent Congress a comprehensive multiyear proposal, the Grow America Act, which included 350 pages of precise policy prescriptions and substantial funding growth, all foc
US transportation secretary Anthony Foxx has called for lawmakers to pass a multi-year infrastructure funding bill, saying the cycle of temporary extensions is killing states' willingness for road and transit projects.
It has been ten years since Congress last passed a transportation funding bill of longer than two years.
"Last year we sent Congress a comprehensive multiyear proposal, the Grow America Act, which included 350 pages of precise policy prescriptions and substantial funding growth, all focused on the future," he said during a hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee about transportation funding issues.
He said the extension passed by Congress last year ‘averted a catastrophe but fell short’ of meeting the country’s needs. "It was not the first short-term measure, or patch, that has been passed,” he claimed. “It was, by my count, the 32nd in the last six years. And as a former mayor, I can tell you these short-term measures are doing to America what the state [Department of Transportation] says they're doing in Tennessee, literally killing their will to build."
It has been ten years since Congress last passed a transportation funding bill of longer than two years.
"Last year we sent Congress a comprehensive multiyear proposal, the Grow America Act, which included 350 pages of precise policy prescriptions and substantial funding growth, all focused on the future," he said during a hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee about transportation funding issues.
He said the extension passed by Congress last year ‘averted a catastrophe but fell short’ of meeting the country’s needs. "It was not the first short-term measure, or patch, that has been passed,” he claimed. “It was, by my count, the 32nd in the last six years. And as a former mayor, I can tell you these short-term measures are doing to America what the state [Department of Transportation] says they're doing in Tennessee, literally killing their will to build."
