{"id":186690434,"date":"2010-12-01T18:27:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T18:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=186690434"},"modified":"2010-12-01T18:27:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T18:27:14","slug":"lets-improve-infrastructure-and-cut-the-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=186690434","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Improve Infrastructure and Cut the Deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from Our Failing Infrastructure by adickert<br \/>\nThe President\u2019s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform released its final report this week. Included in the list of recommendations is a 15 cent increase in the federal gas tax to begin in 2013. ASCE applauds this proposal as a fiscally responsible way to begin solving the nation\u2019s infrastructure crisis.<br \/>\nASCE has long been sounding the alarm about the failing state of the nation\u2019s infrastructure and the need to invest as much as $2.2 trillion over the next five years. But over the past several years, the Highway Trust Fund has relied on transfers from the general fund, at a cost of $35 billion, just so that surface transportation projects authorized under SAFETEA-LU may continue to move forward.<br \/>\nThe reliance on the general fund has been detrimental to the nation\u2019s fiscal health and has created an unstable environment for state surface transportation programs.  Inclusion of a 15 cent gas tax increase would help Congress to move  ahead on  passing a long-stalled multi-year surface transportation bill, and bring solvency back to the Highway Trust Fund.<br \/>\nIncreased funding for infrastructure is an investment in our future. If we succeed now, we can rebuild old and unsafe infrastructure, put people back to work and lay a foundation for future growth.<br \/>\nIf you want to help the economy and make infrastructure safer, contact your legislators and urge them to vote on the gas tax provision.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.asce.org\/govrel\/?p=349\">https:\/\/blogs.asce.org\/govrel\/?p=349<\/a>oldId.20101201182714598<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Our Failing Infrastructure by adickert The President\u2019s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform released its final report this week. Included in the list of recommendations is a 15 cent increase in the federal gas tax to begin in 2013. ASCE applauds this proposal as a fiscally responsible way to begin solving the nation\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=186690434\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Let\u2019s Improve Infrastructure and Cut the Deficit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186690434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186690434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186690434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186690434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186690434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186690434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186690434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}