After meeting with some of his Cabinet secretaries, along with a bipartisan group of former secretaries of Transportation, mayors and governors who have come together in support of infrastructure investment, President Obama spoke both on the depth of the problem and value of the solution.
Maspeth, Queens-based Atlantic Paratrans of NYC Inc. will eventually lay off all of its 610 employees, and Progress Transit Inc. of Mill Basin, Brooklyn, will lay off 244 workers.
Transit systems receiving the annual award hail from Montreal; Tampa, Fla.; and Bloomington, Ind.
Experts estimate that an additional $134B to $262B must be spent per year through 2035 to rebuild and improve roads, rail systems and air transportation.
Washington, D.C. – Former Transportation Secretaries Norman Mineta and Sam Skinner, along with Gov. Gerald L. Baliles, director of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, will hold a news conference Monday, October 4 to release a bipartisan report outlining ten recommendations to fix the nation’s ailing transportation system.