Brian Higgins: “The Buffalo News, in a feature story this week, highlighted the impressive development of the once dormant urban streets…”

“The Buffalo News, in a feature story this week, highlighted the impressive development of the once dormant urban streets in Buffalo, New York; streets like Niagara Street, Main Street, and Ohio Street. What these road projects have in common in their resurgence is a smart and targeted Federal commitment to infrastructure that has been successfully leveraged to yield significant private investment and achieve the maximum benefit for our community and for the Nation. Buffalo--long ago humbled by economic devastation--is now a national model for communities nationwide in showing how infrastructure investments can create jobs and improve the life quality of communities. Infrastructure investment creates jobs in the construction trades and supply and materials industry immediately and unleashes the investment of the private sector in a cause-and-effect economic response. Buffalo has come a long way, and we still have a long way to go. The lessons of our success can and should be shared with the Nation through this institution. ____________________”