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Infrastructure Projects
Boost Economic Recovery
July 10, 2009
Statement by John Horsley, AASHTO Executive
Director, responding to remarks made by House Transportation
and Infrastructure Committee Republicans at a press
conference this morning.
“We fully understand that the economic
recession is causing considerable pain in all areas of the
country, but the investments being made by our state DOTs in
transportation projects through the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act are part of the solution, not the problem.
In the five months that have past since the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was signed into law,
$16.7 billion in projects have been approved for funding.
Nearly two thousand projects are currently
under construction in 46 states, the District of Columbia
and on federal lands. These projects are already creating
thousands of jobs and more are being added everyday as
additional roads get
repaired and bridges get fixed.”
The American
Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
is the “Voice of Transportation” representing State
Departments of Transportation in all 50 states, the District
of Columbia and Puerto Rico. AASHTO is a nonprofit,
nonpartisan association serving as a catalyst for excellence
in transportation. |
