President signs FAST Act, first long-term Transportation Bill in 10 years

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From Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx:

On my first day at USDOT, it had been more than eight years since Congress had passed a long-term surface transportation bill, and my efforts to push hard for a long term bill began immediately.

The message I kept hearing was, “let’s do this later,” so I worked with my team to turn the corner from “impossible” to “inevitable.”

Today we finally broke through when President Obama signed the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act into law, marking the first long-term transportation bill passed by Congress in 10 years...

Learn more about the FAST Act on our Fast Lane blog.

Secretary Foxx and President Obama at Metro Transit shop in Minnesota