“Decades ago we built the best infrastructure system
the world has ever known and then proceeded to take
it for granted.” 

  Thomas Donohue
  President/CEO U.S. Chamber of Commerce

• “Registered vehicles increased by 19.2% from 1996 to 2006.  We can expect to have 48.2 million more by 2016.” -RITA/Bureau of Transportation Statistics

• “There are 8.6 million licensed drivers in PA.” –Penn DOT fact book

• “In Pennsylvania, 296,148,652 vehicle miles are traveled daily.” –Penn DOT fact book

• “There are 121,294 total miles of roadway in PA.”  –Penn DOT fact book

• 25.6% of the 600,000 highway bridges in use were structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. –BTS: Condition of U.S., Highway Bridges 1990-2007

• Pennsylvania has over 6,000 structurally deficient bridges (1 in 4).  –Office of the Governor

• The average life of a bridge is 50 years…

• Pennsylvania has 12,787 bridges over 50 years old… and 6,938 bridges over 70 years old.
   –Office of the Governor

• Bottlenecks are costing truckers 243 million hours of delay annually… the cost for each hour of delay is $32.15.

• Congestion:
  • Creates $78 billion annual drain on U.S. economy
  • 4.2 billion lost hours of work
  • 2.9 billion wasted gallons of fuel
    • Texas Transportation Institute: Urban Mobility Report 2007
        
• “Transportation accounts for up to 14% of the final price of a product, depending on the commodity and distance to be moved.” – U.S. Department of Commerce: Bureau of Economic Analysis
   
• The national annual funding shortfall for transportation infrastructure will top 1.3 trillion, the next 10 years, not factoring inflation. –U.S. DOT Funding Report

• As a result of the gas price spike in 2008, more people are driving less, using alternate transportation, and buying more fuel efficient and alternative-fuel vehicles.

• If all cars got 35 MPG, Pennsylvania would lose $624 million in gas taxes a year, vs. cars averaging 20 MPG.