Performance Driven: Achieving Wiser Investment in Transportation
June 16, 2011

For years there has been overwhelming evidence that the U.S. is failing to maintain its highways, bridges, and transit systems, and consistently falling short in making the infrastructure investments needed to provide for the long-term needs of our growing population and economy.

Candidates steer clear of transportation before Iowa
Jan. 3, 2012

POLITICO reached out to all seven of the Republican 2012 campaigns; none chose to flesh out infrastructure positions. Not a surprise, said Emil Frankel, director of transportation policy for the Bipartisan Policy Center. For many Republicans, infrastructure investment is synonymous with “spending.”

“Inevitably if you’re going to talk about this as a jobs bill, one would think you have to talk about where the money comes from. Candidates don’t want to get into that,” Frankel said. “It seems to me it’s unlikely anything concrete is going to emerge in the primary campaign.”