HHUA PHILOSOPHY
We must fight for pro-highway policies at the federal, state and local levels of government. The price of bad transportation policies is an inadequate, antiquated highway system, unsafe, overcrowded, inefficient.
Diversion of funding and other abusive tactics and the defeatist mantra that "we can't build out way out of congestion" delay road improvements and threaten the mobility of people and goods.
Traffic congestion requires traffic solutions: a comprehensive attack on bottlenecks and gridlock.
Traffic safety requires investment in roadway safety improvements. Restore Trust in the Highway Trust Fund. An efficient highway system requires highway taxes be dedicated to highway and bridge improvements.
Quality Growth requires providing necessary public infrastructure in roads as well as schools, water and sewers.
Funding must be fair: user taxes collected from private sector should not be used to subsidize a government-subsidized monopoly that competes against them.
Rules must be fair: rules that permit states to use highway funds for mass transit should apply to using mass transit funds for highway projects.
Efficient highways ensure mobility in the movement of passengers and goods, productivity and cost savings in commerce, and the economic viability of our State.
Efficient highways promote transit efficiency and O&M cost-savings.
Opponents. Anti-automobile and extreme "smart growth" (new urbanism) advocates seek to change the behavior of a community's residents and businesses, i.e. social engineering. The plans include:
Diversion of funding and other abusive tactics and the defeatist mantra that "we can't build out way out of congestion" delay road improvements and threaten the mobility of people and goods.
Traffic congestion requires traffic solutions: a comprehensive attack on bottlenecks and gridlock.
Traffic safety requires investment in roadway safety improvements. Restore Trust in the Highway Trust Fund. An efficient highway system requires highway taxes be dedicated to highway and bridge improvements.
Quality Growth requires providing necessary public infrastructure in roads as well as schools, water and sewers.
Funding must be fair: user taxes collected from private sector should not be used to subsidize a government-subsidized monopoly that competes against them.
Rules must be fair: rules that permit states to use highway funds for mass transit should apply to using mass transit funds for highway projects.
Efficient highways ensure mobility in the movement of passengers and goods, productivity and cost savings in commerce, and the economic viability of our State.
Efficient highways promote transit efficiency and O&M cost-savings.
Opponents. Anti-automobile and extreme "smart growth" (new urbanism) advocates seek to change the behavior of a community's residents and businesses, i.e. social engineering. The plans include:
Increasing urban density through TODs (transit-oriented development)
Shift highway investments to transit alone.
1 Comments:
I would say this is an incorrect statement of the smart growth/new urbanism position. A goal of those movements is a balanced transportation system that maximizes the choices available to all citizens, whether they be walking, bicycling, mass transit or private vehicles.
Most people today only have one travel choice for their daily needs -- in general, most everyone is forced to use a car whether they want to or not. That's the true social engineering.
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