Title: Americans Back Expanding Rail, Buses Over Highways
Abstract: This article describes how Americans, even in rural areas, overwhelmingly favor expanding public transportation such as rail or bus transit rather than highway construction, which traditionally has received much more funding, according to a new poll. The results should be instructive to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee as it drafts its version of a multi-year bill, argued Transportation for America, a coalition of transportation, housing, environmental, and other groups that commissioned the poll and released its results. Transportation for America is pushing for multi-year legislation that would: increase options; create a unified trust fund for rail, freight, highway, transit, and other investments; and give states, regions and cities more direct funding and greater control over project selection, while holding them to a set of measurable goals.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-05-01
Language: en
Type: article
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