Bipartisan Transport Experts Want Change
Engineering News-Record
Aug. 18, 2010
Cutting through the din of rancorous partisanship in American politics isn’t easy, but the two-year-old National Transportation Policy Project has gathered high-level veteran public figures to state clearly and advance the cause of transportation programming.
The project is part of the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington, D.C., non-profit organization—founded by former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Jr. (R-Tenn.), Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), Bob Dole (R-Kan.) and George Mitchell (D-Maine)—that offers policy recommendations on health care, energy, homeland security and other national topics. But with a six-year transportation reauthorization at hand but not yet on the legislative agenda and funding at a crisis point, the National Transportation Policy Project members have been particularly active, putting out several reports in the past two years.
“Transportation is not an end in and of itself,” says JayEtta Hecker, NTPP senior adviser. “It’s the key to energy and environment and sustainability and safety.”
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