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Obama: Increase Infrastructure Investment

President Obama emphasized the need for increased U.S. infrastructure investment as part of the Jan. 24 2012 State of the Union Address.

“So much of America needs to be rebuilt,” the president said. “We’ve got crumbling roads and bridges; a power grid that wastes too much energy; an incomplete high-speed broadband network that prevents a small business owner in rural America from selling her products all over the world.”

Obama pointed to the creation of the Interstate Highway System as one of several “great projects that benefited everybody, from the workers who built them to the businesses that still use them today,” and announced his plans to sign an executive order “clearing away the red tape that slows down too many construction projects.” He emphasized the importance of worker training and called on Congress to use some of the funds freed up by the end of the war in Iraq “to do some nation-building right here at home.”

He also spoke at length about federal investment in clean energy and announced an administration plan to allow its development on enough public land to power three million homes and called for incentives to encourage manufacturers to minimize energy waste in their facilities.

In a statement following the speech, APTA President and CEO Michael P. Melaniphy said: “I applaud President Obama for his focus on investment in our nation’s transportation infrastructure, including public transportation, as a way to fulfill the president’s goal of ‘building an America to last.’” He pointed to Obama’s emphasis on job creation through infrastructure investment in his agenda, adding that “one of the most effective jobs bills would be to pass a multi-year, fully funded transportation bill.”
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