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DOT's Foxx: 'Invest in Future Generations'

DOT Secretary Anthony Foxx stressed the role of “generations investing in future generations” in creating “the safest, most efficient, most effective transportation system in the world” in his July 22 keynote address before the “New York Moves” transportation conference in New York City.

"Today, we don’t have an engineering challenge,” he said. “We have the knowledge. We do have the wherewithal, even. The problem is that we know we live in a growing country that’s going to add 70 million more people in the next 30 years. And we know that everything we build has a shelf life. And we know what needs to be done—for instance, building new rail tunnels for the 21st century. What we’re lacking right now, though, is the resolve and mettle of previous generations to find a way to complete those major efforts … that keep us sharp in the global economy.”

Foxx noted federal efforts to support transportation, including the GROW AMERICA Act; the LadderSTEP program, which is part of “a new vision of how transportation can become more inclusive, how it can revitalize and connect communities and how it can lift people up who are struggling to get into the middle class;” and enhanced safety and accessibility efforts for all residents, including pedestrians and bicyclists.

Sponsors of the event included Parsons Corporation and the Move New York Coalition, whose members include HNTB, San Schwartz Engineering, CDM Smith and Amalgamated Transit Union. Panelists included representatives of New York City DOT, Parsons and the Port Authority of New York and New ­Jersey, among others.
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