DeLauro Supports Call for Long-Term Surface Transportation Bill

Echoes Goal of “Stand Up 4 Transportation”

NEW HAVEN, CT—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) released the following statement today calling for a long-term surface transportation bill. She joined the Connecticut Association of Community Transportation, the Connecticut Fund for the Environment, the Transit for Connecticut coalition and the Connecticut Construction Industries Association in outlining the importance of passing such legislation.

“We have to stop lurching from deadline to deadline and crisis to crisis. The current surface transportation law expires this fall and the Highway Trust Fund will run out of money on May 31. For our entire history as a nation, our economic prosperity has rested on the foundation of our infrastructure—our canals, railroads, bridges, broadband and more. But without a long-term plan in place towns, cities and states cannot put together adequate plans to build the 21st century infrastructure America needs.

“According to the Federal Highway Administration’s National Bridge Inventory, 34 percent of Connecticut’s 4,218 bridges are deficient. We need to pass a long-term surface transportation bill to deal with critical issues like this. But we also need to think outside of the box. That is why I have authored the National Infrastructure Development Bank Act, which would create and fund a public bank to leverage public and private dollars for meritorious infrastructure projects of national or regional significance. It is long past time to make both of these pieces of legislation a reality.”


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