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* DC - GOP's transportation bill would eviscerate mass transit funding
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Washington,DC,USA -The Hill, by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) -6 Feb 12: -- Last week, House Republicans on both the Transportation and Infrastructure and the Ways and Means committees approved the worst transportation bill I have seen in my 19 years in Congress... Perhaps the worst provision of this terrible bill, would eliminate the guaranteed funding for mass transit that we have relied on for 30 years, and would make transit dependent on the politics of annual appropriations, which, if the last year has taught us anything, leads to dysfunction and inaction... This is a draconian and unacceptable blow to transit funding, one which would result in disastrous changes for millions of New Yorkers and others who rely on mass transit for basic mobility and economic functioning... At center stage is a Republican proposal to move transit funding into a new ‘Alternative Transportation Fund’ in the bill, in which transit would have to compete with numerous other unrelated programs. For the last 30 years, revenues from the gas tax have been used for both highways and mass transit; now, receipts would only go toward highway funding... This bill is a dagger aimed at the hearts of urban and suburban areas across the country...
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