WHAT: After 10 months of discussion, public meetings and preliminary findings, the Transportation Funding Task Force (TF2) is ready to release its long- anticipated report to Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm, the Michigan Legislature and the State Transportation Commission. Three news conferences will take place Monday, Nov. 10, in Detroit, Lansing and Grand Rapids.
WHO: Transportation Funding Task Force members, Citizen Advisory Committee members, MDOT staff members, and members of the public
WHEN: Monday, Nov. 10, 2008, at three locations:
9:30 a.m.
Detroit Region Office
18101 W. Nine Mile Road, Southfield
12:30 p.m.
Aeronautics Building
2700 Port Lansing Road
Capital City Airport, Lansing
3 p.m.
The Rapid
300 Ellsworth Ave., SW, Grand Rapids
BACKGROUND: The Task Force has been meeting monthly since March to review the way Michigan funds transportation, and to recommend strategies to ensure that Michigan receives a greater financial return on its investment. TF2 members evaluated the potential of more than 100 different alternate strategies such as public/private partnerships, tolls, and new or modified user fees to replace or supplement state motor fuel taxes to preserve mobility and propel Michigan into economic recovery. The report will recommend both short-term and long-term solutions to the funding shortfalls the state is facing under the current system. TF2 members had only 10 months to complete a process that took two years when last undertaken in 1999.
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