Transportation secretary to promote Obama proposal on four-day tour

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is embarking on a four-day bus tour starting Feb. 17 to highlight the importance of investing in America’s infrastructure, as well as to encourage Congress to act on a long-term transportation infrastructure bill.

According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, Foxx’s tour will begin in Tallahassee, Fla., and take him through Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. The tour will end at Union Station in Washington, D.C.

Along the way, Foxx will visit universities, manufacturers, bridges, freight facilities and highway projects in an effort to raise awareness of the nation’s infrastructure deficit. Foxx will visit with students, business leaders, transportation stakeholders and community residents to discuss the projects that work, projects that are needed and to ask them to support the Grow America Act, the Obama administration’s six-year proposal.

“Congress continues to pass short-term measures with flat funding that falls short of meeting our country’s needs,” Foxx says. “I am once again taking my message directly to the American people because they know that Band-Aid funding measures don’t build bridges; they don’t create jobs; and they don’t help us compete in the 21st century. We need to put our country back to work with a long-term funding plan.”