Senate Releases Bipartisan Transportation Bill, MAP-21
Monday, November 7, 2011 at 1:51PM
A bipartisan transportation spending-authorization bill, known as MAP-21 — Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century, was released late Friday by the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee.
The proposed legislation maintains funding at current levels for two years, reduces the number of federal programs from 90 to 30, institutes performance standards, increases flexibility within the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) programs to leverage state and local dollars, creates a new National Freight Network Program, authorizes a Projects of National Significance account and proposes guidelines for expediting project delivery.
No transit or rail funding is included in MAP 21, but such programs of interest to the Northwest will come later from the Banking-Housing and Commerce Committees.
For a quick snapshot of the recently released bill, here's a snippet from Transportation Issues Daily, a blog dedicated to transportation policy.