After the Senate’s passage of the MAP-21 transportation reform bill and the House’s passage of a short-term extension of national transportation policy that would also gut the environmental review process, a conference committee is now in the process of crafting our nation’s next transportation bill.
As negotiations continue, it’s vital that the best portions of the Senate’s MAP-21 bill make it into the final conference committee version. Transportation for America has assembled a list of several of these crucial provisions—the bill must:
- Preserve the Senate provisions that provide dedicated funding for repairing our roads and bridges — and hold states accountable for repairing them.
- Protect community access to funds in the Senate bill that make walking and biking safer,
- And keep the flexibility for public transportation “operations” in the Senate bill that allows struggling transit agencies of all sizes to maintain service during a fiscal crisis.
Elected officials need to hear America’s transportation demands loud and clear. Call your federal delegation and tell them that we need a transportation bill for the 21st century.
