Cutting Costs Alone Won't Fill Funding Gap
Robert Latham, APC executive vice president, told the Senate Transportation Committee that the industry works continuously with PennDOT to improve quality assurance practices and to shorten the time required to design and build highway projects.
“Our point, though, is that the size of the annual funding gap, which nearly everyone agrees is around $3.5 billion, is far too large to be ‘fixed’ by improving government efficiency. Pennsylvania residents and businesses who rely on an efficient highway system – must face the fact that our transportation infrastructure needs considerably more of our resources in order to improve safety, relieve congestion and stimulate the economy, in both the near term and long term.”
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