Published in Last Word
President Obama is expected to soon sign into law a $10.8 billion Highway Trust Fund "patch" extending MAP-21 highway and transit funding through May 2015.
The legislation (H.R. 5021) averts a funding shortfall that would have forced the U.S. Department of Transportation to delay and ration project reimbursement payments to states.
In a strategy session on next steps with Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), chairman of the Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee, ACEC President Dave Raymond supported Carper's proposal to deal with long-term transportation funding in a post-election lame duck session rather than wait until next year.
“The patch is a band-aid when the patient really needs major surgery to survive,” said Raymond.
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