Issue Position: Infrastructure

Issue Position

Investing in our transportation infrastructure is how we keep our economy moving. Billions of dollars of worth of freight and goods moves through our region, as do hundreds of thousands of workers. They all depend on safe roads, bridges and transit. As we saw in May of 2013 with the collapse of the I-5 bridge over the Skagit river, this infrastructure is fragile and any disruption to it has large, broad consequences to our economy. The bridge collapse was a wake-up call. Congress must move forward to pass a bipartisan transportation funding bill. It's critical that we maintain, repair and ensure the safety of our infrastructure by investing in key corridors like I-5, our bridges, rural roads and rail infrastructure. These corridors are the backbone of our economy.

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