Quotes About Infrastructure

For every $1 billion we invest in public transportation, we create 30,000 jobs, save thousands of dollars a year for each commuter, and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions.

How we fund transportation in this country is broken. You all pay a gasoline tax, right? Well, cars go farther, we get electric cars, and so on. And then we do more with the money than just build roads. We do bike lanes and mass transit.

Two kids in their dorm room can't start anything important in space today. That's why I want to take the assets I have from Amazon and translate that into the heavy-lifting infrastructure that will allow the next generation to have dynamic entrepreneurialism in space, to build that transportation network.

You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'

One answer to transportation infrastructure funding is public-private partnerships.

You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions.

Industry has to find a way. together with the governments, to find new modes, new modalities for transportation.

The Transportation Empowerment Act paves the way for better roads, easier commutes, and more family time.

Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.

Besides the devastating impact that the Ryan budget has directly on individuals, it does nothing to support job creation or our global competitiveness. Investments in both are drastically affected through cuts in funding for transportation and infrastructure projects, as well as funding for research and development.

There's no question about it: the climate crisis is happening now and we need bold action to address it - and that includes investing in electric transportation and rebuilding our infrastructure.

The tragic thing is that we're letting our transportation system crumble at the exact moment we need to build it up.

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

Our continued economic growth depends on solving our transportation crunch.

All tax incentives do is make it cheaper to borrow for transportation projects. But you still have to pay that money back.

The Environment Committee's leadership in advancing Connecticut's implementation of TCI-P is a positive step in our state's comeback and our commitment to a cleaner environment and modernized transportation system and infrastructure.

While the FAST Act is a significant bipartisan accomplishment that provides much-needed funding certainty, this modest increase in funding is hardly the bold, forward-thinking plan our country needs to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and create a 21st-century transportation system.

The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.

These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland.

A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems.

As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud of being able to help bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the region to create jobs and improve the area infrastructure.

I know well the opportunities and the challenges of maintaining and improving infrastructure and providing good transportation choices.

The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.

I've always been fascinated with how transportation systems work and how cities are designed.