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DOT Adviser Praises House for Passing Nadler Amendment to Hike Transit Funding by 33 Percent in Stimulus Bill

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DOT Adviser Praises House for Passing Nadler Amendment to Hike Transit Funding by 33 Percent in Stimulus Bill

 

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Sean Crowley, 202-572-3331-w, 202-550-6524-c, scrowley@edf.org
Dan Cronin, 202-251-9549, dcronin@edf.org
(Washington, DC - January 28, 2009)  An adviser to the U.S. Department of Transportation praised the U.S. House of Representatives for approving an amendment by voice vote this afternoon to increase transit capital funding in the stimulus bill by $3 billion or 33 percent, from $9 billion to $12 billion. 
 
Specifically, the amendment offered by U.S. Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Dan Lipinski (D-IL), Keith Ellison (D-MN) and Michael McMahon (D-NY) would provide $1.5 billion in funding for transit capital improvement program and $1.5 billion for the New Starts Program.
 
“This amendment is the right prescription for an ailing economy: it offers Americans an affordable and sustainable ride to work,” said Michael Replogle, a civil engineer, a member of the Federal Advisory Committee on Intelligent Transportation Systems for the U.S. Department of Transportation, and Transportation Director for Environmental Defense Fund. “We applaud the House for recognizing that transit is the best transportation option to save and create jobs, get people to work and to reduce air and global warming pollution. This investment will get buses, trains, and rural vanpools moving now, and it will generate real jobs fast — from pouring concrete for bus depots — to assembling transit vehicles and laying steel for rail track.”