Logistics Management |
By Jeff Berman | January 15, 2020
Elaine Nessle, executive director of the Coalition of America’s Gateways and Trade Corridors, said at the time of Carper’s bill being released that the INFRA program was designed to meet freight needs, and as long these needs continue to address freight needs in a stove-piped way, the U.S. won’t get the What’s more, she added that the INFRA program “only allows about 11% of the funding to go to non-highway projects and Senator Carper’s proposal would like to see that entire pot of money under the freight program available to freight projects, regardless of mode to give localities, State DOTs and seaports, or whomever the applicant may be, ultimate flexibility in deciding their highest-priority freight needs regardless of mode.”
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