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"It took the tragedy in the 1-90 tunnel and the ensuing public outcry to finally convince the Legislature to give Governor Romney the power to make much needed reforms to ensure confidence in the Commonwealth's transportation infrastructure," he said.
THORN MEAD Marblehead, Mass., Sept. 20, 2002 The writer is a former assistant secretary of transportation policy, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
State law requires the commonwealth to fully match federal transportation funds, Kaine said, adding that Metro funding would be a top priority even if that meant reallocating money from other transportation projects.
Baliles blamed legislators who have blocked efforts to raise taxes for transportation, saying they are holding the commonwealth "hostage" to ideological purity.
The act leveraged Section 96 of the Constitution to grant financial assistance to the states by employing it to fund road construction and maintenance according to the plans of the federal transportation portfolio in effect allowing the Commonwealth to operate directly in what was constitutionality the exclusive domain of the state governments.
Yet the commonwealth faces a daunting crisis in the form of a drastic shortfall in transportation funding, measured in the tens of billions of dollars, that threatens future prosperity.
The Kentucky Opportunity Coalition is ostensibly supposed to spend the majority of its time and money promoting its social welfare purpose, which it says is "to transform our commonwealth through 21st century solutions to problems and issues facing Kentuckians in education, economic development, health care, transportation and fiscal matters impacting the growth of our communities".
"This deal will not require any upfront taxpayer investment for construction, and will provide $277 million by the time the express lanes are open that will be invested in the corridor to advance critical transportation projects," McAuliffe told the Commonwealth Transportation Board on Wednesday morning.
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