Infrastructure Update: State DOTs Join In Criticism of Biden Administration Plan for Road Funds

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By Daniel C. Vock JANUARY 25, 2022 The influential American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials told the federal government it should be “supporting states” rather than creating new processes to manage them.

The state transportation officials weren’t as scathing in their recent criticisms of the Biden administration’s plans for new highway money as a group of Republican governors were. Perhaps that’s because, as the agencies that decide how the money is spent, they don’t need to be. But they made clear that they want as little interference from Washington as possible. “A one-size-fits-all approach would create unnecessary gaps and conflicts in meeting the various transportation challenges in each state,” Shawn Wilson, Louisiana’s secretary of transportation and development, wrote in a letter to Biden transportation officials. Hello and welcome back to Route Fifty's Infrastructure Update, I’m Dan Vock. This week we’re looking at a letter sent last week by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, an influential group of state agencies, to the Biden administration about its handling of new money included in the president’s signature infrastructure law.

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