"President-elect Barack Obama and the nation's governors met in Philadelphia yesterday partly to discuss the possibility of extensive spending on transportation infrastructure to help create jobs and stabilize our economy. We want to urge our leaders to take a look over the hill, to the future.  

The need to inject billions into our economy presents an opportunity to make dramatic, transformative investment in our transportation infrastructure. Let's not blow it by exhausting our financial resources on recurring road and bridge maintenance, ignoring the opportunity to improve intercity passenger rail and urban transit. The latter kind of investment could reduce our dependency on automobiles, decrease energy consumption, and lessen the need for repairs of the same roads and bridges in the years ahead." For Dr. Vuchic's and Representative Lentz's complete article, please click here.