(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on May 4, 2011.)
On Wednesday, the U.S. Conference of Mayors released results of a 176-city survey on local infrastructure investments and called on the federal government to invest more dollars in transportation options in metropolitan areas.
“As the federal government sets priorities for long-term spending and deficit reduction, future transportation infrastructure investments should focus spending on pressing metropolitan transportation infrastructure needs as opposed to low-priority highway expansion projects,” said Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed in a prepared statement. “The long-term productivity of transportation infrastructure spending is greater when it is invested where economic growth will occur, which is in the metropolitan areas.”
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