Long-Term Transportation Bill Passed by US Congress, First In A Decade

Last night, the U.S. Congress achieved something that has been unattainable for more than a decade. It passed a five-year transportation bill that finally delivers long-term national funding for roads, bridges, and mass transit. The “Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act” (H.R. 22) restores certainty to a national transportation program that has been strung along by more than 35 stopgap short term extensions.

The $305 billion legislation, which will govern federal policy through 2020, reflects a bipartisan compromise the Obama administration “always believed was possible.”

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