The governor's aides insist that the refinancing plan is sound because it solely applies to capital investments -- bridges, roads, transit infrastructure -- and will not allow the fund to be used for operating expenses like washing buses.
Many of the rooms look out onto Rosenthaler Platz, a busy collision of five roads, transit tracks, taxi stands and a U-Bahn station, so the rest of the city is in easy reach.
The American Society of Civil Engineers, which has been sounding the alarm about the nation's deteriorating infrastructure for years, and whose members would benefit from a major new investment in building and repair projects, paints a bleak picture of the state of the nation's roads, transit systems, aviation system and levees.
The areas of infrastructure that may offer the most creative opportunities for improving health are roads, transit, and parks, and even these systems are failing.
Tax cuts leave nothing behind, but the roads, transit systems, ports, electric grid, Internet, courts, schools, universities, research, and all the rest that government spending creates make us competitive and are needed by businesses.
After an intersection with CR 330 (Bullis Road), Transit Road winds north through West Seneca, paralleling several residential districts on each side and crossing an intersection with CR 325 (Seneca Creek Road / Main Street).
Faced with plummeting gasoline tax revenue, state transportation officials have announced plans to cut funding for road and transit projects by $754 million over the next five years, the greatest reduction in two decades.
Long Island Rail Road, New Jersey Transit and the subways wouldn't budge.
Voters in the Savannah area, for example, will decide on a $1.6 billion regional package of road and transit improvements, of which $229 million would be spent in Savannah.
