Transportation Funding

While Norwalk can’t get out of its own way regarding securing funding for transportation improvements, New Haven shows how its done. From a press release:

DeLauro to Hold Roundtable Discussion on Transportation Funding

New Haven,�CT ��On Monday 20 July 2009 at 9:30 a.m. at Union Station in�New Haven�in Conference Room C, Congresswoman�Rosa�L. DeLauro (CT-3) will meet with state, local and regional officials, as well as transportation officials and labor for a�roundtable discussion on the upcoming transportation reauthorization to gain their input as the process moves forward. �Participants in the roundtable discussion include Charles Barone from the Connecticut Department of Transportation; New Haven Mayor John DeStefano; David Kooris from the Regional Planning Agency; Judy Gott, Executive Director, Southern CT Regional Council of Governments (COG); �Rick Dunne, Executive Director, Valley COG; Peter Dorpalen, Executive Director, Central Naugatuck Valley COG; Donna Carter, Executive Director, Greater NH Transit District; Tom Cheeseman, Executive Director, Middletown Area Transit; Dave Moakley � Political Director, Operating Engineers; Don Schubert, Keep CT Moving; Dick Miller; City of New Haven Engineer

Every six years, Congress crafts a transportation measure, which allocates resources to state departments of transportation and national transportation priorities, such as highway and transit investment.� With the current surface transportation authorization measure, the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA�LU, PL 10959), set to expire on September 20, 2009, Congress is in the process of crafting a new law to replace it.