Quotes by Ray Lahood - Page 1

The last time we raised the gas tax, which is how we built the interstate system, was 1993.
Ray Lahood / Former United States Secretary Of Transportation
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Lasts
Taxes
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Last time Congress passed a major six-year transportation bill was in 1997, since then there have been 21 short-term extensions.
Ray Lahood / Former United States Secretary Of Transportation
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Lasts
Years
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A shortage of airports runways and gates along outmoded air traffic control systems have made U.S. air travel the most congested in the world.
Ray Lahood / Former United States Secretary Of Transportation
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Airports
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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.
Ray Lahood / Former United States Secretary Of Transportation
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What Lincoln did is he gathered people around him the way that I believe President Obama is doing by calling Republicans, talking to them, trying to work with them. And when that happens, big things get solved.
Ray Lahood / Former United States Secretary Of Transportation
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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.
Ray Lahood / Former United States Secretary Of Transportation
Kids
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Public spending on infrastructure has fallen to its lowest level since 1947. And the U.S., which used to have the finest infrastructure in the world, is now ranked 16th according to the World Economic Forum, behind Iceland, Spain, Portugal and the United Arab Emirates.
Ray Lahood / Former United States Secretary Of Transportation
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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.
Ray Lahood / Former United States Secretary Of Transportation
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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.
Ray Lahood / Former United States Secretary Of Transportation
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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.
Ray Lahood / Former United States Secretary Of Transportation
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