Gov. Dennis Daugaard offered testimony yesterday on rural infrastructure at a U.S. Senate Commerce Committee hearing in Washington, D.C, led by Sen. John Thune.
At the hearing, the Governor offered South Dakota’s perspective on federal transportation funding mechanisms. The FAST Act approach to distributing funds is preferred to approaches that would require states to toll and attract private investors, he said. According to Daugaard, rural states with lower traffic volumes would face difficulty in trying to raise private money for roads…
Gov. Daugaard also urged the committee to strengthen the Highway Trust Fund…
Gov. Daugaard has been in Washington, D.C., for the last several days attending National Governor’s Association meetings.
(The Home Slice Group)