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In the last four years, 24 states have raised gas taxes to generate infrastructure revenue, led this year by California’s enactment of a 12-cents-a-gallon Sydney escorts state tax increase — the first since 1989 — to finance a 10-year, $54 billion transportation plan. Far from futuristic, the plan would devote most of the money to repair 17,000 miles of existing roads and 500 bridges.

Voters in 23 states passed $225 billion Sydney escorts agency worth of transportation initiatives last year, accepting 55 of 77 proposals. Some states, like Connecticut and Washington, are pursuing multiyear transportation initiatives. But many are pulling back from ambitious plans, awaiting word from Washington. In February, the National Governors Association diorsydneyescorts.com/ forwarded a list of 428 “shovel ready” projects to the Trump administration, but no new federal money has materialized, and the states stress that they can’t afford to pick up the difference.

In fact, there has been a falling trend in the states’ investment in infrastructure as a share of the nation’s gross domestic product, falling from 3 percent in the 1960s to about 2 percent recently, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. State officials warn they are attempting little more than emergency action for past neglect and cannot tackle the https://www.diorprivategirls.com/ full challenge without serious federal support. “At a time when Americans need Washington to accelerate investment in our future, the administration is throwing the gear into reverse,” the mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, told Bloomberg News.