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The Continuing Fight
for Essential Funding
For more than two decades, Transportation California has spearheaded efforts to protect and enhance funding for transportation infrastructure in the Golden State. Uniquely, marshalling the resources of the construction industry, key labor organizations and the business community, Transportation California has established itself as the authoritative voice on transportation issues and the driving force behind key measures to promote infrastructure investment.
Despite the many successes of Transportation California and its allies over the past two decades, investment in transportation infrastructure falls woefully short of meeting basic needs to serve the State's growing population and dynamic economy. Estimates place the annual shortfall at $15-20 billion or more. Clearly, small incremental gains are not going to be sufficient to do the job. Substantial new revenue streams must be put in place and sequestered from the annual fiscal turmoil that plagues California's budget process.
Transportation backlog is now $500 billion
The California Transportation Commission estimates that it will take more than $500 billion through 2020 to maintain the state's surface transportation network. The state doesn't have half that money. Read more about this growing problem.
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