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A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released last week found that, since 1998, the U.S. has gone through two economic recessions that caused cities and counties to dramatically decrease their budgets, which has meant a marked reduction in available funding for public transportation infrastructure repairs and expansions.

GAO, a nonpartisan auditing agency, noted that the current recession—the longest and deepest since the Great Depression—began at the end of 2007, resulting in funding for public transit being “strained since 2008, as state and local funding has decreased with the economic downturn.”

The report discussed the likely increasing demand for public transit, citing such a factor as population growth, “but cost increases and fiscal uncertainties could limit transit agencies’ ability to meet this demand.”

Suggestions in the report included focusing on ensuring a state of good repair for trains and buses as well as improving the delivery of federal grants, making it faster and more direct.

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