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We cannot continue to get caught up in having material abundance and yet be fundamentally and spiritually broke.

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Ray LaHood

The Bush administration, they had two blue ribbon commissions about infrastructure finance that recommended a lot more money, and additionally the gas tax being increased. We couldn't get them to accept being able to move forward. Since President Obama's been in office, there has been, to be charitable, a lack of enthusiasm for raising the gas tax.

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Liveability means being able to take your kids to school, go to work, see a doctor, drop by the grocery or Post Office, go out to dinner and a movie, and play with your kids at the park - all without having to get in your car.

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The Chinese are more successful [in building infrastructure] because in their country, only three people make the decision. . . . In a country where only three people make the decision, they can decide where to put their rail line, get the money, and do it. We don't do it that way in America.

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People across America who value bicycling should have a voice when it comes to transportation planning. This is the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of non-motorized.

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Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge that needs to be opened several times a week so barges can pass up and down the river. It takes about a half an hour. The problem is it fails to lock back into place on a regular basis.

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The last time we raised the gas tax, which is how we built the interstate system, was 1993.

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