Transit Needs and Benefits
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Excerpt from Transit Needs and Benefits: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session March 30, 1993 Senator Sarbanes. If the witnesses could take their seats, I think we are ready to get started. This hearing this morning is the first to be held by the subcommittee this year and it´s the first hearing on transit since the passage in 1991 of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, now known as Istea. Today we are examining the need for greater transit investment to meet our Nation´s transportation needs. We will also focus on transit contribution to the economy, the environment, and the livability of our communities with some special attention to how transit might fit into defense conversion efforts. We have two distinguished panels this morning. I simply want to note before I turn to my colleagues for their statements and the first panel that during the past decade, Federal funding for transit declined from $4.6 billion in 1981 to $3.2 billion in 1991. This actually represents a real cut of over 50 percent in funding for transit. While Federal assistance for transit has been shrinking, the need for transit service has been increasing. Many of our urban streets and highways are clogged with traffic gridlock. It is estimated that highway congestion costs $120 billion in lost productivity in 1989. More than half of our Nation´s population lives in areas with polluted air, and with transportation as the principal source of that - predominant source of that pollution. In rural areas, vulnerable groups are increasingly isolated with inadequate transit and continually declining intercity bus transportation. There are some rural areas of this country where, if people don´t have an automobile, they really can´t get anywhere. They are just completely locked into place. Further, Congress has passed important new laws to make existing transit systems more accessible, more energy efficient, and less damaging to the environment. The Americans with Disabilities Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Energy Policy Act all have placed a variety of new responsibilities on the transit industry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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