Statements about Transportation
"For every one mile of light-rail track that will be built, 16 miles of new road capacity will be built."
Hartsfield-Jackson’s new international terminal is opening "within budget."
"Right now, we have the lowest gas tax of anywhere in the country."
Says "over 40 percent of recent county bonds are for Precinct One, northeast Travis County," because he "is quick to identify projects that help make the East Side a desirable place to live."
The recent process of awarding $3 billion worth of airport vending contracts was the "most open and transparent procurement process in the city’s history."
Taxpayers subsidize 80 percent of each MARTA trip
"New Jersey has the largest transit system in the entire country."
The Georgia Regional Transportation Authority "concluded that light rail in Cobb County would more than double commute time and would therefore be unsuccessful in alleviating traffic congestion."
Says Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell voted for a toll lane on MoPac.
"If you put the $47 billion in revenue (raised over 10 years by the Buffett rule) into infrastructure you could create 611,000 infrastructure jobs."
"When housing and transportation costs are combined, Atlanta’s cost of living -- typically perceived as relatively low -- ranks as 7th worst out of 51 metros nationally."
The average Atlanta resident "spends an extra $924 each year in additional gasoline and wasted time."
Says bus riders subsidize the "expensive, romanticized" Leander-to-Austin train.
"If you're earning under $100,000 a year and you commute to New York every day you pay more to the Port Authority in tolls than you pay to the state of New Jersey in income tax."
"The (ARC Tunnel) project was originally estimated to be $8.7 billion, and New Jersey alone was on the hook for all overruns."
A proposed regional transportation tax will last "a minimum" of 10 years, and has been approved to last longer.
"[O]ver 200,000 ordinary citizens were given the opportunity to identify projects they preferred."
Says "streetcars carry more people than buses … you attract more riders who don't ride transit now, and actually the operating costs are not any greater than the bus."
"Every time the weight of that vehicle is reduced by a hundred pounds, your chances of dying are going to go up by about 5 percent. Peel three hundred pounds off – you’re 15 percent more likely to die in that car."
Says only seven percent of 2009’s stimulus bill went toward transportation projects, yet they created over one-third of the bill’s total jobs.
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