Transportation Funding: Down to the Wire
Local Press Conferences Highlight Need to Fix Our Roads
With two weeks before the April 6 deadline to pass transportation funding and reform legislation, CSAC and the Fix Our Roads Coalition are pulling out the stops to make sure that policy-makers in the Capitol know the poor conditions of our highways, roads and bridges, and that additional revenue is needed to bring them up to standards. At a series of press conferences this week, the coalition is stressing that California needs to spend $130 billion over the next ten years to bring our road pavement condition into decent shape. In addition, there is more than $1.1 billion in recent storm damage to state and local transportation infrastructure.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis participated in a news conference in her county. “As former U.S. Secretary of Labor, I think I know a thing or two about how vital the role is of transportation and building our roads and infrastructure is to creating jobs and sustaining and rebounding our economy here in Southern California, said Supervisor Solis. “In the last decade or so we’ve seen deterioration in our roads. Every time I go through my district I see not just potholes, but repairs that would contribute to the safety and protection of our children. A sustainable level of road funding will not only fix our roads and bridges, it will also improve our local active transportation network.”