California will receive $ 2.57 billion for surface
transportation through ARRA. The citizens of California want to use this money to stimulate the economy
and to advance long-term goals. This report provides a 20-item menu for how California can use ARRA stimulus dollars to make the
transportation investments that aggressively address the state’s pressing
needs. It offers previously unavailable information for citizens and reporters
to use in asking whether state officials are choosing the best available ways
to invest California’s transportation stimulus money.
Specifically, the report is a guide to 20 types
of projects that states and cities can fund right now to:
·Create jobs
that advance a quick and lasting economic recovery; and
·Reduce
household transportation costs, traffic congestion, oil dependency, greenhouse
emissions, and vulnerability to gas prices.
This
report highlights the tremendous opportunity California has to fund projects
that repair crumbling roadways and
bridges, provide low cost transportation choices, retrofit streets for safe walking and biking,
advance energy independence, and generally put
thousands of Americans to work during the current economic crisis and in
order to jump-start a 21st century transportation system.
