The high-tech investments, they say, can be the contemporary equivalent of federal financing for highways in the 1950s, which fostered the growth of businesses like automakers and national retail chains.
This administration's deliberate starvation of our railroads is a foolish policy choice that stands in sharp contrast to its high-calorie feeding -- and financing -- of highways, bridges and, to a lesser degree, airports.
In 1998, Congress passed legislation forcing the states to lower the legal limit for alcohol or face the loss of federal financing for highways.
It slashes financing for highways, prisons and state parks.
You're for the state financing of various services (highways, canals, levees, military defense) no individual could possibly pay for, which means you are in favor of general revenues generated by taxation.
But with federal financing of the Interstate highway system, states had to conform to a single standard.
They say that billions of taxpayers' dollars are spent each year to finance the construction and repair of highways and to pay for the national air traffic control system.
That was the verdict yesterday from mass transit advocates and state officials in the aftermath of Tuesday's defeat of the statewide bond act intended to finance $3.8 billion worth of highway and transportation improvements.
It was one of a number of questions about the goody-basket of Transportation Department activities, which include financing new highways, bridges and improvements to rail routes and airports.
Highway demonstration projects -- Highway spending would be increased by 6percentt, including the financing of demonstration projects, like the Bud Shuster Highway in Pennsylvania, named after the former leader of the House Transportation Committee.
It would require states to adopt federally set minimum penalties for texting while driving or forfeit 25percentt of highway financing.
