ARTICLE
On the surface, a group of the Lehigh Valley's most influential leaders meeting in the parking lot of a hot dog shop to discuss billions of dollars in federal funding would appear to make very little sense. But perhaps that's fitting because they say the way Congress has been allowing Pennsylvania's roads and bridges to fall into disrepair doesn't make much sense either. Standing in the parking lot of Yocco's Hot Dogs on Route 100 in Fogelsville, Lehigh Valley planning and business leaders on Thursday urged Congress to pass a long-term transportation spending plan rather than a 33rd consecutive short-term Band-Aid they say will provide too little money and no vision for the future. The result of all those underfunded Band-Aids is a rapidly deteriorating system in which a quarter of Pennsylvania's bridges are structurally deficient and its roadways are rated a D-minus by the American Society of American Engineers. Click here to read the article.
On the surface, a group of the Lehigh Valley's most influential leaders meeting in the parking lot of a hot dog shop to discuss billions of dollars in federal funding would appear to make very little sense.
But perhaps that's fitting because they say the way Congress has been allowing Pennsylvania's roads and bridges to fall into disrepair doesn't make much sense either.
Standing in the parking lot of Yocco's Hot Dogs on Route 100 in Fogelsville, Lehigh Valley planning and business leaders on Thursday urged Congress to pass a long-term transportation spending plan rather than a 33rd consecutive short-term Band-Aid they say will provide too little money and no vision for the future.
The result of all those underfunded Band-Aids is a rapidly deteriorating system in which a quarter of Pennsylvania's bridges are structurally deficient and its roadways are rated a D-minus by the American Society of American Engineers.
Click here to read the article.