Anthony Foxx: “Today, we have 100,000 bridges in our country that are old enough for Medicare and a Highway Trust Fund that is running…”

I want to thank you for what I would call your ferocious advocacy on behalf of safety and on behalf of the workers and users of the system.

I want to thank you for being such a great voice for the need to fix the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund and for long-term stability in the funding.

I stand with you 100 percent in urging Congress to provide adequate funding to build transit system capacity to meet growing ridership demand.

It is imperative. In this case the cost of delay is measured in lost members of our families, of pain and suffering, and the denial of economic, health and social opportunity for the elderly, disabled and the impoverished.