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Obama Outlines Administration Goals

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: January 4, 2009

Barack Obama's official 2008 presidential campaign Web site lists the revitalization of transportation infrastructure, improved public transportation and transportation planning, and safeguarding transportation from terrorism as primary transportation goals.

Among the details:

•Add new jobs through new national infrastructure investment that would infuse $60 billion over 10 years to provide infrastructure financing.

•Direct the administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to restore morale and improve working conditions and operations.

•Appoint an FAA administrator who "will not play politics" with the safety of American travelers.

• Reform Amtrak to improve accountability and fight for Amtrak funding so the nation has safe and reliable transportation options.

•Renew the federal government's commitment to high-speed rail so the nation's transportation infrastructure supports, not hinders, economic growth.

•Examine how to bring mass transportation to areas in which three-fourths of welfare recipients are poorly served by public transportation and low-income workers spend up to 36 percent of their income on transportation.

•Create effective public transportation systems and modernize the aging urban public transportation infrastructure.

•Create greater public transit usage incentives by reforming the tax code to make benefits for driving and public transit or ride-sharing equal.

•Re-evaluate the funding process to ensure residents can walk, bicycle and have access to alternatives to auto transportation.

•Require states to plan for energy conservation as a condition to receive federal transportation dollars.

•Develop a meaningful database for homeland security planning to replace the current one that lists 77,069 potential U.S. targets, including petting zoos and popcorn factories.

•Bolster airport security and safeguard mass transportation.

Source: www.barackobama.com

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