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- From: ndallen@r-node.pci.on.ca (Nigel Allen)
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- Subject: Transit Association Supports Lautenberg Full-Funding Plan
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 02:08:16 GMT
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- Here is a press release from the American Public Transit Association.
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- APTA Supports Lautenberg Full-Funding Plan
- To: National Desk, Transportation Writer
- Contact: Chip Bishop of the American Public Transit Association,
- 202-898-4114
-
- WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- The following is a statement by
- Jack R. Gilstrap, executive vice president, American Public Transit
- Association:
-
- The American Public Transit Association strongly supports Sen.
- Frank Lautenberg's Start Up plan to fully fund ISTEA, the Intermodal
- Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991.
- Chairman Lautenberg's planned $6.7 billion supplemental
- appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 1993 would make an additional
- $1.4 billion in federal aid available this year -- in addition to
- the $3.8 billion already approved -- to upgrade and expand public
- transit services across the nation. If enacted, it would achieve
- the full promise of ISTEA which authorized $5.2 billion for transit
- improvements this year.
- Chairman Lautenberg's full-funding initiative is consistent with a
- commitment made by President Clinton during the campaign and the
- position taken by the nation's mayors and other public interest
- groups.
- Full funding would go a long way toward revitalizing the economy
- and putting people back to work. APTA estimates that the incremental
- $1.4 billion for transit would mean support for 93,000 full-time
- jobs and more than $4 billion worth of new revenue for business.
- Our transit-system members have told us they are able and ready to
- spend up to $7 billion in additional funding this year on a backlog
- of projects. Chairman Lautenberg's proposal is a necessary and
- appropriate first step toward that goal.
- Full funding of ISTEA has been APTA's No. 1 legislative
- priority. We look forward to working with the chairman and his
- colleagues to help turn it into law.
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- APTA is the international association of operating transit
- authorities, their suppliers and other advocates of improved transit
- service.
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- Nigel Allen, Toronto, Ontario ndallen@r-node.pci.on.ca
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