Anthony Foxx
Anthony Foxx
Anthony Renard Foxxis an American politician currently serving as the United States Secretary of Transportation, a position he has held since 2013. Previously, he served as the Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, from 2009 to 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party. First elected to the Charlotte City Council in 2005, upon his 2009 mayoral victory he became the youngest mayor of Charlotte and its second African American mayor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 April 1971
CityCharlotte, NC
CountryUnited States of America
Today, 65 percent of America's population live in metropolitan areas - and 95 percent of all the transit miles traveled are traveled there. Metropolitan regions are the engines of our economy.
I've seen Congress do some remarkable things within a short period of time.
Bridges and roads take years to build, but too often, states and communities haven't known if funding will be there for them more than a few months at a time.
Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is 100 percent avoidable.
I was in Nashville, Tennessee, and I saw - we talk about crumbling bridges - I saw one, concrete literally falling onto the underpass below, threatening auto traffic.
I was the first mayor to even go meet with the LGBT community.
We cannot meet the needs of a growing country and a growing economy by simply maintaining our current level of effort. We must do more.
People are sitting in traffic longer, and the types of solutions that are needed to relieve that congestion are ones that are paid for by the Highway Trust Fund.
The I-495 bridge over the Christina River in Wilmington, Delaware, is tilting.
Local transit agencies have developed apps to let you know when the next bus is coming, but there are so many more applications that can be done.
The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.
Tolling... has a place. We're not going to toll our way to prosperity as a country. It is a tool that can be used in some instances, for example, to add capacity and to pay for that capacity privately. But I don't think it is a complete solution to how we deal with our surface transportation issues.
There is no such thing as a Democratic or Republican road, bridge, port, airfield or rail system.
Passengers want options, and when they have options, like passenger rail, they choose them.