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INFRASTRUCTURES FUNDS * USA - Candidates' paths diverge over paying for highways
The candidates for governor agree that the state's transportation infrastructure needs attention. The big difference is in their ideas about how to pay for it
Roanoke,VIR,USA -The Roanoke Times, by Bill Bartel & Julian Walker -4 Oct 2009: -- Without a powerful jolt of new money, Virginia could soon lose its ability to build new roads and keep up with improvements to crumbling old ones... The gas and auto sales taxes the state relies on have declined because of a weak economy. So has federal transportation aid... Transportation experts warn that if not addressed, increasing congestion, particularly in Hampton Roads and Northern Virginia, will strangle the state economy... No matter who wins the governor post, transportation experts say Virginia needs to raise at least $1 billion a year for transportation and do it soon... Whether the fix is a gas tax, tolls, sales tax, earmarking future revenues or some other funding formula, there appears to be near unanimity among stakeholders that something needs to be done now...* USA - Officials consider toll scenerios for I-5 bridge over Columbia River
Portland,OR,USA -The Columbian/TDN, by Erik Robinson -October 2, 2009: -- When it comes to building a new bridge across the Columbia River, the question for Washington and Oregon transportation leaders wasn't so much whether it will be tolled. It's how will the tolls work... In limited public testimony, business interests generally expressed support for tolls... Costs for the project are estimated between $3.1 billion and $4.2 billion... In replacing the existing twin spans of Interstate 5 across the Columbia River, transportation planners are considering a 12-lane bridge with an extension of Portland's existing light rail system to Clark College. Planners are also anticipating major improvements to the freeway and interchanges over five miles between state Highway 500 in Vancouver and Columbia Boulevard in Portland... (Photo from Wikipedia: Interstate Bridge)* “Start Us Up USA!”: Las Vegas Trucks Join Campaign for Infrastructure Money
Las Vegas,NV,USA -Living Las Vegas, by Diane Taylor -4 Oct 2009: ... Tuesday’s kickoff for a national campaign called “Start Us Up USA!” The kickoff rally was held in the Las Vegas Convention Center Gold Lot. Following speeches by industry leaders, DeLong trucks participated in a parade of construction equipment down Las Vegas Boulevard to launch the national campaign... The point of “Start Us Up USA” is to convince Congress to reauthorize transportation funding for new roads, bridges, transit and rail and to do so quickly and for an extended period. As rally speakers pointed out, two out of every 10 jobs lost in the U.S. have been in construction, and a revival of the transportation portion of the construction business would provide jobs to some of the 37 percent of the construction workforce currently unemployed... (Photo: Parade Lineup Pik)
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