Your life, your future now becky quick. We begin with the Summer Travel season. Its in high gear. And americas roads and bridges are at a low point but when theyre fixed, they may be a lot smarter than they are now and that will make them safer, too as we found out in our cover story. Our roads getting a d on the most recent report card our Transportation Network is slowing in some ways, our economy and making it less efficient. The estimated impact by 2025, more than 2. 3 trillion in Business Sales lost. More than 1. 2 trillion in lost gdp. The nation eas bridges gettingc plus the study estimated there will be a funding gap of more than 1 trillion by 2025 half the money needed to fix our roads and bridges. And taxpayers will likely pay for problems one way or another. Motorists on average send 600 a year on additional maintenance on their cars because of poor road conditions. Reporter drivers are expected and preparing byline the the roadway fiber optics and building a wifi highway th
I call this hearing to order. Todays hearing is about the need for this committee to draft and to pass a bipartisan Highway Infrastructure bill. Both Ranking Member carpers staff and my staff have been working on drafting this legislation along with all of the members of this committee. We appreciate all the input we received from our home states, from our fellow members and from transportation stakeholders. Its our shared goal to advance a bill out of the committee this summer. That means the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will be first out of the gate to pass a Highway Infrastructure bill. This is appropriate given the history of bipartisan efforts to pass previous surface as far as surface transportation bills. Chef crumbling roads and bridges and they need to replaced. Projected population growth and existing congestion require states to build new capacity to meet future needs. Our economy is built upon a well functioning road system that allows products from rural a
Project. And we heard mixed reviews overall we got support for the project and why were bringing it to you, the board. The second question about loading zones. Loading areas and meters and areas where were reducing park. Can we put in shorter trim meters to encourage turnover. Well talk with the Supervisors Office and businesses. We can put in one or two of the spaces can become a 30minute green zone to increase the turnover. There are loading zones and we do feel they serve business loading needs but we can continue to work to add more if thats necessary and if its something businesses want. Are these biking protected bike lanes . Theyre buffered bike lanes. Twofoot buffer in a bike lane. Can we go back to the parking im not an engineer but we have talked a lot about parking and i feel ive learned a lot and a feel its not the number of parking spots that dictate the success or failure of a Commercial Area its our ability to manage. I dont want to let the speakers statement that each p
In a quiet location and turn off any tvs or computers around you. We thank you for your cooperation. Places you on item number two. Roll call director lindsay. My apologies. Not used to going first present. Lindsay lindsay present. I see her joined. Yep director so present. So present. Director here. Present director. Karina. Present. Present directors eakin and hemingway are not expected today at todays meeting. However, you do have a quorum. And for the record, i know that director lindsay is attending this meeting remotely. Director kinsey is reminded that she must appear on camera throughout the meeting and in order to speak or vote on any items places you on. Item number three, the ringing and use of cell phones and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited. At this meeting, the chair may order the removal from the meeting room any person responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone or other similar sound producing Electronic Devices places you on item number
This is the nations safety watchdog making sure they are the top priority in the u. S. Department ofor transportation. Through its impartial investigations into transportation accidents, the board makes recommendations that have transformed Transportation Safety. Ha ntsbs recommendations prompted action to require railroads use positive train control to use seatrc belts to have well rested crews. The needs to continue to improve safety is ongoing. Run away near misses are far too frequent and must do better. Eastet palestine derailment, and the inspections that have been lacks. They make sure we are looking out for longer trains and improvements. Thats just flustering given last saturdays derailment where three trains collided. We seeen a crisis in the nations roadwaysn in 2021. The latest data we have fatalities are the highest since 2005 in my home state. Fatalities increased 40 since the pandemic. While, thats enough to think about, we are urgently in need of an ntsb and use the exp