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Video: AASHTO's Bud Wright on Why Transport Spending Faces a 2015 Fiscal Cliff

In this 5-min. Transportation TV Close Up video, AASHTO Executive Director Bud Wright explains how the nation's highway and transit programs face a "fiscal cliff" unless Congress acts to increase money available

Jan 6, 2014

In this 5-min. Transportation TV Close Up video, AASHTO Executive Director Bud Wright explains how the nation's highway and transit programs face a "fiscal cliff" -- completely draining the Highway Trust Fund -- unless Congress acts to increase money available to the nation's highway and transit programs

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