Report Touts Economic Benefits via Maine Transportation Projects
The report put out by TRIP, a Washington, DC non-profit sponsored by insurance companies and transportation labor unions, highlights about 50 trips that are likely to generate economic growth when completed.
"'In the long term these improvements will enhance economic competitiveness and improve the quality of life for the state's residents and visitors by reducing travel delays and transportation costs, improving access and mobility, improving safety and stimulating sustained job growth,' TRIP says in the introduction to the report it will present today.
The Maine Department of Transportation has no obligation to implement any of TRIP's recommendations, but the list carries some clout, said Pat Moody, spokesman for AAA.
He said that, hopefully, the report will refocus public attention on Maine's deteriorating transportation infrastructure and bring pressure on state legislators and the governor."
Full Story:
Published on Thursday, December 15, 2011 in
- Portland's Long-Term Transportation Plans Include a Downtown Subway
- Mapping the Tools of Discrimination
- Overcoming Density Opponents by Listening to Them
- Is This Really Penn Station?
- It's Too Hot to Fly in Phoenix Today
- Surveying the Suburban Office Market
- No Cars Allowed on Portland's New Street
- Google to Buy 300 Modular Apartments for Employees
- A Rap Song About Bike Safety? Yes Please.
- Urine Trouble: MARTA Station Elevators to Get Pee Alarms
- Seattle Adds Bus Capacity to Accommodate Amazon Interns
- New Tallest Building West of the Mississippi Now Open
- Tri-Cities Emerging as a Solar Demonstration Hub for the Pacific Northwest
- Business Owners Vote to Fund Sacramento Streetcar Operations
- The New Apple Store in Chicago Looks a lot Like a Laptop
- Invasive Fish Encroaching on the Great Lakes While Army Corps Study Languishes
- Bamboo Regulations Almost as Popular as Bamboo in New Jersey
- Los Angeles Councilmember Chooses the Side of Traffic Safety
- Cap Park Planned for I-579 Near Downtown Pittsburgh
- Will Alaska Return Millions of Dollars for Bike and Pedestrian Projects to the Feds, Again?
