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Impacts of the Recession on Public Transportation Agencies: Survey Results
Monday, April 5th, 2010AMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION
Transit agencies have been forced to cut service, lay off employees, raise fares, slow capital improvements and take many other actions to survive. More troubling is that this comes at a time when transit use is at near modern record levels. This report, based on a March 2010 survey, provides a national perspective on the extent to which the current recession is affecting public transit agencies and the tens of millions of Americans who use their services.
MAPPING THE ROAD TO STIMULUS SUCCESS: Americans Throw their Support Behind Better Infrastructure, but Questions Remain
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009HNTB CORPORATION
“Given a choice, more Americans (56 percent) would prefer tax dollars go to the infrastructure problems in their area, rather
than the biggest ones across the nation. They prefer state governments take primary responsibility…Nearly half (46 percent) of the nation also considers the issue of highway and bridge repairs to have gone unaddressed the longest versus other major infrastructure…”
Building America’s Future National Survey
Friday, June 5th, 2009BUILDING AMERICA’S FUTURE
“Fully 81% of Americans are prepared to pay 1% more in taxes to rebuild America’s
infrastructure…”
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