From USDOT's Fast Lane Blog

Tallahassee, FL, Mayor Andrew Gillum

For every community, long-term investments in transportation have great and far-reaching effects.  Not only are the projects themselves a direct benefit to a region through the jobs they create, the infrastructure they improve, or the new forms of transit they introduce; but they also have secondary effects that aren’t as immediately noticeable to the economic and social vitality of our community.

Tallahassee is a mid-size city that has experienced an incredible amount of growth and revitalization over the last several years. A part of that success has been the conscious investments we have made to our infrastructure that has helped spur new development opportunities and has helped change our thinking of how best to use our land resources. Investments in transportation infrastructure have helped create truly substantive transformations in our City that have driven a resurgence in formally forgotten, dilapidated, or forgotten parts of town.

Ultimately, investments like the GROW AMERICA Act are vitally important to States and communities around the country to address our infrastructure deficit, drive the amenities needed for economic growth, and improve the quality of life for citizens who rely on adequate transportation resources to live, work, and play.

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