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By JULIE HOLT 9
Associate Director Virginia Citizen Action
A funny thing happened on the way to a budget bill in the House of Representatives last month when it came to the tussle over federal transportation funding.
The promised “across-the-board” approach to spending cuts got tossed aside, and the highway lobby came out a big winner, while commuters, train riders and we, the taxpayers, ended up on the bottom.
Road builders, the oil industry and the other highway interests have been smarting since passage of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Enhancement Act (1STEA) five years ago. Aimed at reducing traffic congestion and air pollution this bipartisan law wisely equalizes new federal investment funds for public transportation and highway construction.
Yet the budget plan adopted by the House and now working its way through the appropriations process where Rep. Frank Wolf, R-lOth District, chairs the transportation subcommittee that will mark up the bill next Wednesday would undo that balanced, joint approach.
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