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Rogoff Testifies Before T&I Subcommittee on Importance of Federal Infrastructure Funding
Peter Rogoff, chief executive officer of Sound Transit in Seattle and former DOT under secretary of transportation for policy and FTA administrator, testified about the local and national importance of infrastructure investment Oct. 11 before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Housing and Transit.
“Nationally, we are on a trajectory where conditions in both the highway and transit modes will only worsen as the century progresses,” Rogoff said. He pointed to “inadequate funding from all levels—federal, state and local” and stated his agency’s support for President Trump’s vision of "crumbling infrastructure … replaced with new roads, bridges, tunnels, airports and railways,” while noting concerns about cuts in federal programs and funding levels.
Rogoff emphasized that funding provided through any new initiative “must not just substitute for the base level of funding authorized through the FAST Act and provided through appropriations acts.” Another priority, he said, is to boost funding for public transit expansions in rapidly growing megaregions, which will see the overwhelming majority of population growth in coming decades.
The full text of Rogoff’s testimony is here.
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