US Transportation Secretary calls for greater long-term investment in infrastructure

US government Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and 11 of his predecessors have signed an open letter to the US Congress calling for larger, longer-term investment beyond the extension of the Highway Trust Fund until May 2015. In the letter, Foxx said: “This bill will not “fix” America’s transportation system. For that, we need a much larger and longer-term investment.  On this, all twelve of us agree. Taken together, we have led the U.S. Department of Transportation for over 35 years. “So it is with some knowledge and experience that we can write:  Never in our nation’s history has America’s transportation