This Week in Passenger Transport
APTA President William W. Millar joined representatives of
several other transportation-related organizations in
presenting proposals for reauthorization of the Transportation
Equity Act for the 21st Century at a Sept. 19
hearing before the Highways and Transit Subcommittee of the
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
In addition to APTA, representatives from state and local
governments, transportation infrastructure
construction-related industries, chambers of commerce, unions,
planning organizations, and sustainable transportation
advocates testified during the hearing and offered their TEA
21 reauthorization recommendations.
The hearing, titled "Stakeholder Proposals for the
Reauthorization of Surface Transportation Programs," was
dominated by proposals on how to make more Highway Trust Fund
resources available. It was the fourteenth in a series of TEA
21-reauthorization hearings held by the subcommittee this
year.
;Millar outlined APTAs reauthorization proposal in his
testimony, emphasizing three main points: to grow the transit
and highway program, maintain TEA 21s funding guarantees, and
expedite program delivery. He pointed to documented needs
exceeding $42 billion annually when he said the new bill
should guarantee funding increasing from $7.2 billion in
Fiscal Year 2003 to $14.3 billion in FY 2009.
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