Transportation commissioner on how to make the case for infrastructure
Conor Skelding
At a forum on congestion pricing this Friday, state transportation commissioner Joan McDonald talked about how to get more people to pay attention to the crucial, decidedly unglamorous issue of infrastructure.
“I think we saw just last week with the explosion on Park Avenue and 116th Street, our infrastructure is old,” she said, to an audience at Baruch College. “So our mission is to make the case that it's not just a transportation issue; it is a sustainability issue and it is an economic development issue.”
McDonald said that 1992, in this context, "was a great year: ISTEA (the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991) had recently passed; the federal Highway Trust Fund was flush; New York State had passed its dedicated fund.”
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