T4America lessons learned: States should fund all of the needs in their states, not just highways

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States should fund all of the needs in their states, not just highways

Most of the packages this year involved funds largely dedicated to highway projects. While many states have outdated restrictions that limit certain fuel tax or related revenues to spending on roads, legislatures must find ways to use state funds to finance the multimodal transportation system they need to stay economically competitive. States that ignore this do so at their long-term economic peril. While T4America supports the concept of states enabling local voters to tax themselves for transportation and transit specifically, states should not neglect their urban and rural transit needs by pushing all responsibility to local government or local voters. Moving people from place to place and connecting them to jobs and opportunity — whether by a highway or a transit line — is always in the state’s interest and new funding or policy legislation should reflect that.

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T4America lessons learned: States should fund all of the needs in their states, not just highways