DELAYS SEEN IF RETROFITTING MEASURE FAILS\Highway funding at risk, group says.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A Washington-based research group says California's transportation funding shortage could double to $4.5 billion unless voters approve a ballot measure to strengthen hundreds of bridges against earthquakes. The Road Information Program, or TRIP, a nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. information organization that targets highway issues on behalf of the construction industry and others, said voters' rejection of Proposition 192 would result in the cancellation of about $600 million in transportation projects. Some $4.6 billion worth of projects would be delayed two to five years, TRIP said. Proposition 192 would provide $2 billion to strengthen 1,100 bridges against failure. The measure also would provide $650 million for seismic retrofitting of eight toll bridges The following is a list of toll bridges. Toll bridges are bridges upon which traffic may pass upon payment of a fee, or a toll. This list is intended to be a subset of List of toll roads. . Backers include the California Chamber of Commerce, the California Taxpayers Association and the California Transit Association. Chamber President Kirk West said "projects designed to ease congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. , enhance safety and improve travel will be jeopardized" if Proposition 192 is defeated. Several environmental and anti-tax groups oppose the proposition, including the Planning and Conservation League and the Sierra Club Sierra Club, national organization in the United States dedicated to the preservation and expansion of the world's parks, wildlife, and wilderness areas. Founded (1892) in California by a group led by the Scottish-American conservationist John Muir, the Sierra Club . |
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