Governor Pataki, a Republican, also ran into some resistance to his proposal to have the federal government pay for $3 billion worth of transportation projects, including road, bridge and rail projects in upstate New York.
But mostly he talks about using the Games as a tool to help the city complete $5 billion worth of transportation and development projects on the West Side of Manhattan, which might not ordinarily get done.
But the Democratic administration is known to be cool to Mr. DiFrancesco's proposal to create a Disney World-type entertainment, sports and retail complex on the Meadowlands site, a plan that carried with it almost $1 billion worth of transportation and other kinds of enhancements for the Bergen County area.
A dollar's worth of maritime transportation requires inputs from at least 10 interrelated transport and logistics industries (Helling and Poister, 2000).
Mr. Schaffer, who was the director of government and media relations for Tyson, the large poultry and food processing company, was convicted of giving Mr. Espy $2,500 worth of air transportation so he could attend a May 1993 party in Arkansas given by Tyson executives.
Helling (1997) outlined how a dollar's worth of water transportation is spread over 10 different but interrelated business categories.
The industrialization of India has meant the introduction of giant port, road and airport transportation projects worth billions of dollars that have attracted global investors.
In June, the states got $4 billion worth of reimbursements for transportation projects from the federal government, said Jack Basso, the director of program finance and management for the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.
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.
The California State Association of Counties estimates that its members have more than $12 billion worth of projects — including transportation, county and public health facilities, green energy, court buildings and flood control — ready to contract out within six to nine months.
Now that all 50 states have beat a June 30 deadline by winning approval for projects that will use more than half of that transportation money, worth $16.4 billion, it is clear that the stimulus program will continue that pattern of spending disproportionately on rural areas.
