House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
Highways and Transit Subcommittee
2167 Rayburn
09/04/2008 at 10:00AM
This hearing is the first in a series of hearings exploring emerging themes in transportation policy and practice, the needs of our national surface transportation system, and the reauthorization of our surface transportation laws. The Subcommittee will continue this series by holding hearings in the near future on the issues surrounding freight access and goods movement, infrastructure preservation and modernization, highway safety, mobility and connectivity of rural areas, and other issues.
Witnesses
- Robert Puentes, Metropolitan Policy Program at The Brookings Institution
- Robert D. Yaro, President of the Regional Plan Association in New York
- The Honorable Ron Sims, King County Executive, Seattle, Washington
- Jolene Molitoris, Assistant Director of the Ohio Department of Transportation
- Michael R. Wiley, Executive Director of Sacramento Regional Transit District
- Ron Kirby, Transportation Director of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments