Beth Van Duyne: “While I appreciate the gentleman's comments on increasing traffic and increasing congestion, what I would remind him is…”

“While I appreciate the gentleman's comments on increasing traffic and increasing congestion, what I would remind him is that this is going to be looked at by local elected officials. And if those local elected officials deem that this is an unused lane, which is what we are seeing on Highway 75, we will actually be opening up and relieving congestion by allowing those elected officials to be able to say we are going to open this back up, which will have much more response to alleviating traffic, alleviating problems with congestion, allowing many more people to be able to drive on that lane, as opposed to paying money to create more congestion, more carbon emissions, and less efficiency. Again, these cities would be paying back those dollars which could be used for necessary future transportation costs. Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.”