It also provides money for thousands of transportation projects currently under construction around the country.
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You see, in a matter of days, funding will stop for all sorts of transportation projects.
Alaska eventually kept the federal money intended for the bridge, using it on other transportation projects.
The opportunity for people-driven, shareable, sustainable business doesn't stop with solar or transportation projects.
We've already approved nearly a thousand transportation projects to upgrade airports, railroads, mass transit systems, and shipyards.
The Highway Trust Fund, responsible for highway and transportation projects, is nearly insolvent.
Road funding has also been whittled away by other federal transportation projects like truck safety, transit grants and even high speed rail.
So those acts contain provisions that authorize the Secretary of Transportation to make the unused funds available for eligible surface transportation projects.
Several major transportation projects like a new light rail system have helped lure new businesses and residents to the area as well.
Luisa Paiewonsky is the Highway Division administrator for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, which is responsible for allocating stimulus funds for transportation projects.
Why not let them use that money for other transportation projects?
Transportation Secretary LaHood joined the Vice President to announce that transportation projects funded through the Recovery Act are ahead of schedule and under budget.
And across Nevada, there are dozens of transportation projects and energy projects and construction projects putting people to work doing the work that America needs done.
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We just released a report that shows nearly 90 percent of the construction, manufacturing and trade jobs created through investments in transportation projects are middle class jobs.
It will jumpstart thousands of transportation projects across the country.
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We know our country can do better -- which is why I proposed a "Fix-It-First" program earlier this year to put people to work on our most pressing transportation projects.
Major work still needs to be completed and local voters will decide in July whether to raise taxes to pay for the work and a lengthy list of other transportation projects.
It also raises Virginia's retail sales tax on most items from 5% to 5.3%, with a further increase to 6% in the most traffic-congested regions to pay for local transportation projects.
He cited cities like Denver and Phoenix, Arizona, where residents, motivated by traffic frustrations and the promise of economic development, approved massive transportation projects during the past few years despite the costs to their pocketbooks.
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In recent years this program, which provides direct loans, loan guarantees, and lines of credit to regionally or nationally significant transportation projects, has helped mayors leverage four times the money invested in it by the federal government, helping construction workers get on the job quicker, and repaying taxpayers their hard-earned money faster.
In other floor action, the House debated and rejected, 194-225, an amendment by Republican Rep. Marge Roukema of New Jersey to replace a Transportation Department program that sets a goal of providing 10 percent of transportation projects to businesses owned by women and minorities with another program that would recruit and provide assistance to such businesses.
And since then, here in Ohio, nearly 2, 400 small businesses have gotten loans to keep their doors open and their workers on payroll, 4.5 million families have gotten tax cuts to help pay their bills and put food on the table, some 450 transportation projects are underway or have been completed, and more than 100, 000 Ohioans are at work today as a result of these steps.
The Recovery Act has made possible over 12, 500 transportation construction projects, from rebuilding highways to improving our airports.
We talk about the great transportation improvement projects that someone can help design and build, which will be long-lasting and make a difference in the lives of Americans.
With that comes opportunities of great interventions, new projects, rethinking urban transportation, creating vast new park systems, and experimenting with urban design strategies that might improve the quality of urban life.
This program identifies, assesses, trains, and places community members, including military veterans, into careers in transportation and mixed-use development projects, which, in turn, grows the local workforce and strengthens the economy.
This summer, New York's Department of Transportation will begin one of 19 pilot projects funded nationwide by the Federal Highway Administration to rebuild infrastructure to withstand the increasing number of severe weather events expected with climate change.
Ballantine had pledged to cut personal and corporate income tax rates and to use state transportation funding for roads rather than urban rail projects.
While Jackson and his successors framed economic policy as a matter of limited-government principle, Howe argues that the practical difference was that the Whigs sought to create a coherent national transportation system, while Jackson preferred to dole out projects on an ad-hoc basis to individual states.
Eligible projects for funding by the NIB would include transportation infrastructure, water infrastructure, and energy infrastructure.
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