Senators Warner and Kaine press release:
>>>WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced the designation of $232,426,060 in federal funds for Virginia transit systems. This largest-ever investment in Virginia transit was authorized by the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act negotiated by Sen. Warner and supported by Sen. Kaine. The funding will be awarded through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration formula programs and distributed to transit systems throughout the Commonwealth.
“Thanks to the bipartisan infrastructure law, Virginia continues to receive funding for much-needed transportation upgrades,” the senators said. “This investment in the Commonwealth’s public transit will make lives easier for every Virginian who relies on public transportation while creating good-paying jobs for workers.”
Because of this record investment in transit, Virginia is set to receive a 28.7 percent increase in funds over last year’s total apportionment.
In addition to the $232 million guaranteed for Virginia, the Commonwealth is expected to receive a portion of the $280,270,139 in funding designated to the D.C. Metro Area, which includes Northern Virginia, D.C., and Maryland. This funding will be divided across transit agencies and localities within the area.<<<
Such a waste of taxpayers’ money. Meanwhile, Metro’s Silver Line to Dulles and Loudoun County is delayed year after year. It was originally scheduled to open in the summer of 2018 and is still not open, nearly 4 years later! Why do we continue to fund this dinosaur method of transportation? In 4 years they can’t complete 11.5 miles of track even with the multi-billions of dollars that have been wasted on it! Imagine the roads that could have been built with that money! Perhaps a new road between Washington DC and Richmond so we can all avoid I-95? We wouldn’t all be sitting in constant traffic jams across the state if a few billion dollars of that money was spent on roads. Instead, the foolish Loudoun County BOS allocated OUR money to an antiquated method of transportation few people will ever use.
Why can’t Democrats EVER allocate more money for roads that benefit everyone in the commonwealth rather than just the few who might occasionally use public transportation?
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Well, I ain’t a Democrat. But, we are already using 20 million barrels of crude, or, 840 million gallons, each day in the US alone. We have no public or corporate crude storage that amounts to anything due to the sheer volume involved. That causes the wild fluctuations to large extent because tankers in route are the crude oil storage facility. It takes a month or more to raise or lower output because tankers are so slow and they’re already in route or they have to be loaded and put in route depending on supply demand. The crude oil left in the US is to a large extent expensive to get out of the ground, shale and fracking. Everybody would raise hell about the price of gasoline if we used all US crude, if it were even possible.
We have corrupt idiots in congress. We are a divided country who has not solved any real problem in decades if not even longer. we do not even have a southern border. We run from one war to another, fighting other peoples wars. You people are lied to drowning in propaganda about why we are even fighting the wars. The news media likes to sanitize so they can profitize war, then bring the war into your living rooms so people can sit there and eat pizza and drink beer and watch people kill each other. Brandon’s son was raking in millions of dollars a year while Brandon was VP and now those same countries who were paying Brandon’s son millions are getting billions of dollars and favorable executive orders. A large percentage of the problems we face would not exist if it were not for deficit spending. Almost everything that is wrong with this country is only possible due to deficit spending.
The problem with people is that they are not intelligent enough to know that they are not intelligent enough to take care of themselves.
Transportation is the perpetual campaign pot of gold for politicians. It gets them elected. And transportation issues never gets fixed satisfactorily so they run on it again. Contractors get rich and we get the same crappy roads. Does anyone really believe they want to fix roads and improve transportation when its a reliable vote-getter? Wake up and look at who is up for re-election in 2024.
Yeah you raise a good point, Ms. Jeanine… why is that damn track taking so long? And here is another question for you… where is that money going? Any idea what is is for? To be honest… unless the population moves as many people and the fed gumment are demanding telework, I doubt that roads will solve your problems up there. There isn’t any place to put roads in Fairfax for example. You would have to condemn tons of neighborhoods to do what that Pr William Tranny or Crossdresser or whatever It is.. wanted to do and build overpasses everywhere. It would have been a good idea thirty years ago. Too late now. Is the cross dresser still in the House of Delegates by the way? You don’t hear much about him.
I will make a guess and say that a lot of the money will go for pay lanes… Another bullshit idea. Did the pay lane down I95 make it better for the average person? NOOOO… in reality what happened was that before the pay lanes, people got on the HOV lanes after hours… but once the pay went into place, they couldn’t do that. Thus 95 gained more traffic than ever. Oh if you want to pay hundreds of dollars a month..then sure the pay lanes were great: EXCEPT you had to get off of them… and then you bottlenecked with the great masses of people who cannot expense their pay lane fee…
Some federal employees are going back to work late this month, for one day a week. Truth.
run for office and fix our transportation issues, that would be good
A great many federal employees never left the office even through the most dangerous periods of Covid… they literally risked their lives to fulfill their civil servant duty… Truth!
Those are called the United States military
Actually any civil servant who handles any classified material. Not just military.
I hate those toll roads with a passion. Republicans pushed through the biggest tax increase in VA history and we got TOLL roads on top of it.
Exactly! We need road improvements and not public transportation. I-95 should be 8 lanes in both directions.
Somebody has never been to LA… smh…
Other than when I lived in Cali…. Somebody has never driven on I-95. It used to be gridlock in the summer, now it is gridlock all year long. I-81 is a one long truck stop. VA Beach is a nightmare. And this is just in Virginia. Our 75 year old interstate system could be updated for 21st century traffic.