Subcommittee Chair Warns of Challenges Facing Transportation Reauthorization
On March 29-30, 2011, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Highways and Transit Subcommittee held a hearing on a pending surface transportation reauthorization. At the hearing, the Subcommittee sought suggestions from approximately 40 transportation community witnesses on how to streamline and consolidate programs, cut red tape to speed up the infrastructure project approval process, and create jobs through wise investment of limited resources.
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Subcommittee Chairman Duncan (R) warned that “this reauthorization of the highway, transit, and highway safety programs will be more challenging than any other in recent memory. Fiscal constraints and calls for Congress to redefine the federal role in surface transportation will require us to consider dramatic changes to these programs.”
According to Duncan, the Subcommittee will be focusing its efforts on (i) streamlining the transportation project delivery process; (ii) innovative financing, and (iii) eliminating duplicative federal transportation programs.
(See ITT’s Online Archives or 02/04/11 news, 11020423, for BP summary of Committee’s announcement of field hearings and forums on surface transportation legislation.)