Transportation for Floridas Future

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Moving FLORIDA Forward!

• Transportation for Floridas Future

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The Mess Were In

• Status Quo is Latin for the mess were in.
• -Ronald Reagan

Florida cant afford the Status Quo!
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Floridas Economy
QUESTION Is our economy - tourism, -
agriculture, or - construction-based?

• Florida has a
• "TRANSPORTATION-based
• economy. 
• Without good transportation,
• this region's economy
• grinds to a halt. 

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The BIG Picture

• TRANSPORTATION is really all about PEOPLE. It
  provides
• Safety,
• Freedom and
• Prosperity to all
• the PEOPLE of Florida! 

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Floridas Explosive Growth
Trends in Mobility and Demand on the
FIHS Continued Growth Will Increase System
Demands and Reduce Mobility

• Lane miles are increasing at 1.3 annually

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Floridas Explosive Growth
Trends in Mobility and Demand on the
FIHS Continued Growth Will Increase System
Demands and Reduce Mobility

• Lane miles are increasing at 1.3 annually
• Population is increasing at 2.3 annually

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Floridas Explosive Growth
Trends in Mobility and Demand on the
FIHS Continued Growth Will Increase System
Demands and Reduce Mobility

• Lane miles are increasing at 1.3 annually
• Population is increasing at 2.3 annually
• VMT is increasing at 5.4 annually.

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What Growth Means

• Each day, nearly 1,100 new residents move to
  Florida.

Over one year, thats like adding a new city the
size of Tampa to Florida!
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23 Billion Pothole
Over the next ten years we need an additional 23
BILLION just to keep things the way they are
TODAY!
Funded 48.4 Billion
Shortfall 22.7 Billion
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Bleak picture?

• The pictures pretty bleak, gentlemen The
  worlds climates are changing, the mammals are
  taking over, and we all have a brain about the
  size of a walnut.

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What We Need To Do

• 1.) Protect Existing Transportation Funding
  Sources 
• State Transportation Trust Fund (STTF) and the
  new monies from the 2005 Growth Management
  legislation - 542 million annually

Transportation Hippocratic Oath First Do No
Harm!
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STOP Highway Robbery!

• With a Special Legislative Session on the Budget
  scheduled for mid-September
• 80 million in TRANSPORTATION funding have
  already been targeted by Florida DOT, and
• hundreds of millions more are in jeopardy as
  well.

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STOP Highway Robbery!

• TRUST in GOVERNMENT should not be an OXY-MORON
• When the economy is slowing, dont apply the
  brakes
• The first casualty of a revenue downturn
  shouldnt be safety
• Traffic congestion is already very bad, why make
  it worse
• Dont Pull the Plug on Smart Growth Management

Florida Cant Move FORWARD If Our Transportation
System Is In REVERSE!
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What We Need To Do

• 2.) Provide MORE Money for Transportation
  Improvements (from recurring and non-recurring
  sources)
• Use technology to move away from a gas tax and
  towards a distance-based user fee. (Oregon pilot
  program)
• P3s
• Electronic Tolling
• Managed Lanes (Rapid Bus Transit)
• Truck Tollways

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What We Need To Do

• 3.) Move Ahead Quickly on New Transportation
  Corridors  
• ( and expand enhance existing transportation
  facilities).
• TIME Money!
• New corridors paid by tolls not robbing Peter
  to pay Paul.
• New corridors help provide congestion relief to
  existing routes.

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What We Need To Do

• 4.) Empower Local Governments to Do More for
  Transportation
• Local Option Rental Car Surcharge
• Index Local Option Gas Tax
• Index Motor Vehicle Fees

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Selling Transportation

• Sell TRANSPORTATION to (the 3 Ps)
• Public,
• Press, and the
• Politicians.

Facts are nice, but slogans sell beer.
Aim for the heart not the head!
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Sell Truth Offer Hope!

• Hope Story of the rail line built over the Alps
  from Austria to Italy before a train existed
  that could make the trip!
• Tell the truth about todays transportation
  challenges really sell the truth and then
  offer hope.

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• FBT Keeping Florida Moving

Douglas J. Callaway, FBT President - (850)
521-1256 www.bettertransportation.org